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...supplying fertilizer, which had been a key component of its aid to Pyongyang). Among the steps Pyongyang urgently needs to take now, Noland and others believe, are to conclude negotiations for expanded aid from the World Food Program. (Pyongyang sharply curtailed the activities of the organization following a rare bumper crop in the North three years ago.) Kim also has to swallow his pride and ask the South to restart the flow of food assistance to the North...
...heart of that growth for both companies were bumper profits from exploration and production units. Those at Shell's climbed 52% to more than $5 billion, and BP's did even better. But given the surging price of a barrel of oil, both businesses must share the plaudits with the markets. A spiraling dollar and jitters over supply have helped drive oil prices up almost a quarter this year, reaching a fresh record of almost $120 on Monday. An end Tuesday to the two-day strike over pensions by refinery workers in Scotland - which had earlier halted much...
...supposed to be when you went to the beach and caught up on your reading. Now if you don’t have a job lined up, you feel like a malingerer. Yet this is only the logical outcome of decades of upbringing. Ours is the overbooked generation, a bumper crop of overachievers who spent their childhoods dashing from Gifted and Talented classes to volleyball practice to tutoring sessions for underserved suburban youth. Our summers before college were spent at chess camps, on traveling soccer teams, or managing our eight lemonade franchises. We couldn’t even go camping...
...Morning, noon and night, the people of Brazil's biggest city are stuck behind the wheel. Saturday morning, Sunday evening, weekday afternoon, the panorama is the same: cars, bumper to bumper. "Here you go," says Alexandre Teixeira, slowing to a crawl one recent weekend. "Sao Paulo, 7:30 on a Sunday night, and we are in a traffic...
...Like Ambrosio, millions of Paulistas are condemned to spend large parts of their lives staring at the bumper of the vehicle in front. In the city center, the sheer volume of cars - often made worse by stop-start delivery trucks and parents on the school run - brings traffic to a grinding halt. And the absence of ring roads leaves the city's outskirts clogged by trucks and commercial vehicles, some of which are not even intending to stop in Sao Paulo, but have no route around the place. At peak hours, the accumulated tailbacks can stretch past 120 miles...