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...people to eat in season? There are a few levels, one is as consumers become more conscious, hopefully we can force these grocery stores to start labeling. Where does the food come from? Is it from South America? Is it from China? Who makes it? What's in it? And as we start to get this information, it'll become easier and easier for consumers to start to make choices. In Food Inc., we're not telling people what they should eat. We're saying people should have the right to know what they eat. And they should know...
...novel skips through time and space, forward and backwards from Korea to China to 1980s New York, where June, who has now become a profitable antiques dealer, has stomach cancer—an irony that does not escape the woman who once starved for weeks as a child. Realizing that death draws near, she seeks out Hector to help her track down her estranged son, Nicholas. The difficult journey brings them to Italy, where in a final moment of redemption, Hector and June arrive together at a hallowed church that recalls the ghostly memory of Sylvie’s betrayal...
...powers on either side. No longer. India has just launched a plan to spend $361 million over the next several years on roads and rail links in the terai, announcing the grants just before Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav made his Feb. 15 official visit to New Delhi. China, meanwhile, recently increased its annual aid to Nepal by 50% to about $22 million...
Discussing how the U.S. lags behind China on energy efficiency, in the New York Times...
...China is a poor country with nothing comparable to the tremendous research, industrial and economic resources that the U.S. has been blessed with. Yet they're blowing us away ... The low-carbon era is coming. We can be dragged into that newer, greener world by leading countries like China; or we can take up the challenge and become the world's leader ourselves." --2/13/10...