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...economy, the drought is contributing to soaring world food prices - rice, wheat and corn prices have more than doubled in the past two years - which in recent weeks have triggered panic buying, hoarding and a string of riots across the developing world. "International agencies are belatedly recognizing," says Julian Cribb, a professor of science communication at Sydney's University of Technology, "that the global food crisis is much closer than the climate change crisis or even the next oil crisis...
...designers’ conservative views. ISI’s site says the institute aims to imbue college students with “a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society.” The institute’s president, T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., served as President Ronald Reagan’s top domestic policy adviser...
...update of McGuffey's Reader, a collection of moral tales children could read, and have read to them, to help counter all the junk on TV. When he left the Bush Administration, Bennett set out to produce such a book. With help from a brainy young assistant named John Cribb, Bennett considered 5,000 stories, selecting 320 and organizing them under 10 virtues: self-discipline, compassion, responsibility, friendship, work, courage, perseverance, honesty, loyalty and faith...
...Tinman (Mysterious Press; 212 pages; $15.95) features a first-person amateur detective who is none other than the Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria's son and heir. Lovesey proved himself the world's foremost concocter of latter-day Victoriana in his series of mysteries built around Sergeant Cribb, then echoed the early 20th century in the nostalgic Hollywood story Keystone and the brilliantly plotted thriller The False Inspector Dew. Here he returns to 19th century London and, as always, to a subtle but relentless dissection of Britain's unjust social-class system. The rueful, candid voice he gives...
...Kenneth Cribb will be the primary custodian of the conservative flame as White House director of domestic affairs. A close adviser to Meese for seven years, both in the White House and at the Justice Department, Cribb, 38, has a reputation as a tough ideological infighter with a hair-trigger temper. Conservative Columnist William Buckley recently lauded him as an "arrestingly bright young man." Cribb seems destined to supplant Gary Bauer, a conservative intellectual who was recruited from the Education Department as a ranking domestic adviser in the waning days of the Regan regime. "Gary will continue to formulate domestic...