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...After months of muddled responses, governments and international agencies are racing to allay the damage. Headway will not come cheap. U.N. officials warn that boosting agricultural production enough to feed the world could cost about $20 billion extra a year. Warning that a decade of progress against poverty could be obliterated in short order, World Bank president Robert Zoellick announced the bank would quickly spend about $1.2 billion to boost crop production in the world's poorest countries. U.S. President George W. Bush has committed about $360 million in U.S. emergency food aid, while the Asian Development Bank has vowed...
This news, disclosed here for the first time, is a big deal. Lots of Wall Streeters--loudest among them the hedge-fund legend George Soros--have been warning lately that speculation has inflated oil prices into a soon-to-pop bubble. But talk is cheap--this is something more. One of the biggest oil winners of the past decade has decided...
With digital copies cheap and perfect today, copyright law has been rewritten to amplify the power of parties already powerful enough to use it against the weak. This year at Harvard provided varied examples of the anti-educational misuse of copyright...
Amidst student efforts to facilitate cheap online purchase of costly textbooks, the Coop asked a student to leave the store in September because he was writing down information about textbook names and prices. The Coop claimed that the information was its “intellectual property.” That’s a real stretch, but judicial practice in copyright cases is unpredictable these days. Few students would have the nerve and the resources to stand on principle in federal court...
...Hives, as WebMD.com tells me, are often idiopathic. Which means less that idiots get them than that it’s hard to tell why exactly. I racked my brain—was it the suspiciously cheap sushi I ate for dinner? The alcohol-drenched lifestyle I was leading? The dust bunnies-turned-basketballs gathering around my bed? While my anxiety mounted, my rash burned brighter, spreading to my neck. I finally fell asleep after slathering myself with Benadryl cream, and woke up the next morning, rash-free...