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...Char carried with him a videotape, which TIME has seen. The tape, which shows the life of a small band of Hmong, is deeply disturbing. The first footage-dated June 19, 2003-shows images of an emaciated baby. A girl cradles him in her arms, trying to feed him cassava roots crushed into a paste. Another child lies limp on the floor, her belly bloated from hunger. Their mother, unable to produce breast milk, was, says Va Char, out in the jungle searching for food. Outside the hut lies another child, too weak too pull himself out of the dirt...
...Ying Yang, 20, was one of the band. In an interview this summer, he told TIME that on May 19 his girlfriend, Mao Lee, 14, ignored warnings from the camp's armed guards that there might be Lao patrols in the neighborhood and went looking for cassava root along a mountain path. Mao's elder sister Chao, 16, went along, says Va Char, with a group of 12 young men and women. They set off up the mountain path. None of them carried weapons. Behind them, says Va Char, four or five other groups, perhaps 40 people in all, followed...
...Tigre in rural Venezuela. That mix of Manhattan sophistication and Latin American tradition produced Cacao, which has quickly become one of Miami's most popular restaurants. Owner Leal and wife Mariana Montero take the timeless dishes your abuela (grandmother) cooked, like seviche, tamales and bobo de camarao (shrimp in cassava and coconut-milk sauce), and "deconstruct them," as Leal says, into haute cuisine with a presentation that can be as much fun as Carnaval. They have coaxed surprisingly velvety textures and piquant tastes out of soups like black bean or fish sancocho. Dishes include duck escabeche with white-chocolate carrot...
...developed corn varieties that are more resistant to disease and thrive in soil that is poor in nitrogen. Agronomists in Kenya are developing a sweet potato that wards off viruses. Also in the works are drought-tolerant, disease-defeating and vitamin-fortified forms of such crops as sorghum and cassava--hardly staples in the West, but essentials elsewhere in the world. The key, explains economist Jeffrey Sachs, head of Columbia University's Earth Institute, is not to dictate food policy from the West but to help the developing world build its own biotech infrastructure so it can produce the things...
...Secretly she hoped for a girl. The bellyache came and passed--the labor lasted not even an hour--and she called the baby Aisha. Aisha was a lively child with huge brown eyes and a flashing smile. She ate whatever Marie prepared, whether it was a stew of pounded cassava leaves or a soup of ground peanuts; but like all children, she loved sweets, and would charm her mother into buying her cakes at the market. She slept in the same bed with her mother, always staying close. And when her little sister came along, she nicknamed her Bobo...