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...decide between them? The Pew report has the best data on this year's crop of the unresolved. The national survey of 1,325 registered voters, conducted Oct. 23-26, found that when asked which candidate they preferred, 6.2% answered "don't know" or "either." These voters tend to be older than most, and they have less education. They also make less money, which suggests they have less time to pay attention to politics; only 37% of the undecideds told Pew they were "following election news very closely," compared with 55.5% of McCain or Obama supporters...
...NATO forces have uncovered Taliban stockpiles of opium. Despite the bumper opium harvests, the street price of heroin remains a costly $67 per g in European cities, and the price Afghan farmers charge for their opium has remained about $70 per kg (about $33 per lb.). If the entire crop had been sold during the past two years, "the prices should have collapsed," says Costa. "But there has been no price collapse...
...estimate of what is missing is based on simple arithmetic and market economics. The world consumes a steady 4,500 tons or so of opium a year, almost all of which comes from poppies grown in Afghanistan, where the crop earns about $1 billion a year for farmers, by U.N. estimates. Yet Afghan farmers have harvested far above world demand in recent years; last year's harvest was a record 8,200 tons and this year's crop dipped only slightly to about 7,700 tons, in part because the global food crisis sent the price of wheat rocketing, persuading...
...junior with only six games under his college football belt,” Murphy said. “A very impressive kid.”With the loss of defensive backs Steve Williams, Doug Hewlett, and John Hopkins to graduation, the Crimson was in need of a fresh crop to take their place. Hanson was quick to fill the spot, stepping up from the first game onward.Murphy sites Hanson’s knowledge of the game and his calmness as the reasons for his success on the field.“I just don’t want...
...Mostly McCain tried to say that Obama's change is dangerous. Across the table, there sat the Illinois Senator, looking not very dangerous. And thanks to a very long, very hard year on the campaign trail, Obama sported a motley crop of gray hair; perhaps for the first time, he even looked the part of a President...