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...Budapest, the U.S.-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an advocacy group with 125 affiliates around the world, convened a conference of doctors, survivors and advocates from 31 countries to map a global plan of action. A quiet march by 5,000 participants across the city's famed Chain Bridge--lit pink for the event--was the solemn coda to the meeting. But months before the Komen event was held, we had mobilized our own global resources to cover this growing health problem. Time's Hong Kong-based correspondent Kathleen Kingsbury, who wrote our cover story, surveyed the state...
...invitation to think more deeply about what we eat. The latte and bran muffin you consume at breakfast are historical and global products, with the power to affect environments, economies and people's lives. Understanding how they reach your table will help people at every link in the food chain - a task, Patel says, that is "as urgent as the prize is great...
...based Western Cattle has the potential to be the leading company in the third-largest beef-producing nation in the world. And if the company's Western take on raising cattle catches on in the East, it could kick start the consolidation of China's disorganized beef-production chain, bringing to Inner Mongolia all the high-volume efficiency - and social and environmental concerns - that go with big agriculture...
...Democratic presidential candidates, but there was a clear loser--Barack Obama." At a rural-issues forum on a farm outside Adel, Iowa, Obama sympathized with the plight of farmers this way: "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and seen what they charge for arugula?" (That high-end grocery store chain doesn't have any locations in Iowa...
Anyone who's ever eaten fast food, on the other hand, will warm to David Novak. The head of Yum! Brands, the largest restaurant chain in the world (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut), has written a feel-good memoir called The Education of an Accidental CEO. The son of an itinerant government surveyor, Novak attributes his corporate dexterity to having lived in 32 trailer parks by seventh grade. Although he leads a company with nearly 1 million employees, there is a gee-whiz quality to his writing: "We had a blast at Pizza Hut. It is so much...