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...port city of Mombasa, Kenya, where ships bring donated food from the U.S. and other Western countries. (About two-thirds of WFP's food here is purchased locally, and one-third is donated in kind.) A local bean supplier arrives. Two women in blue lab coats take samples, check that there isn't too much extra matter mixed in and weigh the bags. The porters then run the food into the warehouse and stack it in neat rows and columns to form elaborate, sheer-faced structures as high as three-story buildings. On average last year porters like these across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Food Program: On the Front Lines of Hunger | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

...repowering the battery takes six to eight hours, using any standard outlet. A GEM won't win a drag race - maximum speed is 25 mph, though with a surprising amount of pep. I took a four-seat GEM for a test ride through New York City's Central Park. Check out my experience here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Electric Cars Hit the Fast Lane | 6/13/2008 | See Source »

...used to be that guests went in the room and latched the door," says Brian King of Courtyard. "Now they want to come out." The new design will be rolled out at most of the 700 locations by 2010. Like Aloft, Marriott is also eliminating the long, chest-high check-in desk, replacing it with pods that will allow clerks to step out and interact with guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Generation Y Hotel | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...website for sex connoisseurs). Her friends tend to be other service pros: bar managers, boutique clerks, concierges. She earns £105,000 (more than $200,000) a year, pays 40% to a snooty female "agent" and exchanges, ahem, services with her tax preparer. (She writes him a check and he gives her cash back, so that she can get a receipt and write off the tax-prep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Call Girl | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...more than a year, Obama relied on conventional means to confront the blogosphere's superheated rumor mill - to little effect. The "fact-check" feature on his website, for instance, only seemed to spawn more, and wilder, rumors. A mention there of Obama's birth certificate spurred National Review Online to demand that he produce it to dispel groundless reports that Obama was actually born in Kenya and therefore would be constitutionally ineligible to be President; that his middle name is not Hussein but Muhammad; and that his mother actually named him Barry. That National Review article in turn became fodder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Obama's Anti-Rumor Plan Work? | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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