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...Hypoluxo, Fla. It's one of those old-fashioned grab-a-prize machines, updated with a hydraulic system that raises the platform holding the prizes. Improbably, it's one of the hot games at a show that is a mix of high-tech gimmickry and homey touches like corn dogs and inflatable scarecrows to attract spectators...
...film (directed by Andy Tennant) has more problems than Melanie, and they're insoluble. Its lazy calculation telegraphs each plot turn and underlines emotions with corn-pone music. And the decision to turn Melanie into a snarky city critter, who must spend the film's second half apologizing to everyone she insulted in the first half, sabotages Witherspoon's ability to be the full star package: pretty, smart and caring...
...controversy over this aid centers around the regulations for genetically modified crops around the world. The United States permits GM food to be sold widely, and most American corn farmers plant genetically altered strains designed to make the corn stalks more resistant to disease and insect pests. Countries in the European Union and Africa, however, are wary of GM foods—believing that insufficient testing has been done on the altered strains to prove them safe for consumption...
...solution is clear: Immediate distribution of non-GM grains like wheat and rapid milling of GM corn, to be shipped directly to the Zambian people. But major U.S. grain companies have been actively lobbying to use only non-milled GM crops for aid in an attempt to corner the African grain market. If GM crops contaminate Zambia, it will neither be able to sell excess crops to the European Union nor continue to grow GM grain without buying further shipments of seed grain from America...
...woman beside me her Minute rice—in an eerie, Muzac-free silence. I tried to think of the heroes of Sept. 11, but the golden ranks of cooking oil had impressed themselves on my imagination and all I could muster was a profane and tedious mantra: Canola? Corn? Vegetable? Finally the nasal woman thanked us and told us we might continue shopping. Carts whirred back to life to the gentle strains of Muzac. The moment of silence had elapsed as irreverently as most...