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...that we've always had so much of it. Settlers fleeing the privations of the Old World landed in the new one and found themselves on a fat, juicy center cut of continent, big enough to baste its coasts in two different oceans. The prairies ran so dark with buffalo, you could practically net them like cod; the waters swam so thick with cod, you could bag them like slow-moving buffalo. The soil was the kind of rich stuff in which you could bury a brick and grow a house, and the pioneers grew plenty - fruits and vegetables...
...only programmed to eat a lot," says Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History, "but to prefer foods that are high in calories." What's more, the better we got at producing food, the easier it became. If you're a settler, you eat a lot of buffalo in part because you need a lot of buffalo - at least after burning so many calories hunting and killing it. But what happens when eating requires no sweat equity at all, when the grocery store is always nearby and always full? (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...Canada last year to witness my son's marriage to his partner. Returning home, where that marriage is not recognized felt like Cinderella postball. Denying same-sex couples the right to marry is deeply hurtful both to them and to the family members who love them. Barbara Krentzman, Buffalo Grove, Illinois
This year SKS plans to reach 4 million customers like those in the village of Veeravelly, who have been using loans for projects like buying buffalo and opening a welding shop. "Unless we have capital markets interested in microfinance, there's no way we could get to that many borrowers," says Akula. A deal in which Citigroup will buy $44 million in loans off SKS's books, for instance, is expected to help SKS reach 200,000 people across 7,000 villages. Among the beneficiaries are women like Parajata, a widow in Veeravelly who was working as a day laborer...
...Canada last year to witness my son's marriage to his partner. Returning home, where that marriage is not recognized felt like Cinderella postball. Denying same-sex couples the right to marry is deeply hurtful both to them and to the family members who love them. Barbara Krentzman, BUFFALO GROVE...