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...graduates of a world-renowned university and residents of the world’s last superpower, Rowling said, Harvard’s newest crop of alumni can touch the lives of others “simply by existing...
...officials warn that boosting agricultural production enough to feed the world could cost about $20 billion extra a year. Warning that a decade of progress against poverty could be obliterated in short order, World Bank president Robert Zoellick announced the bank would quickly spend about $1.2 billion to boost crop production in the world's poorest countries. U.S. President George W. Bush has committed about $360 million in U.S. emergency food aid, while the Asian Development Bank has vowed to give $500 million in emergency loans to the hardest-hit countries...
...Such aid is a stopgap solution to problems that have been brewing for years, but have only recently gone critical due to several complex factors: soaring oil prices; massive amounts of farmland diverted into producing biofuels; and crop failures from freak weather, including droughts in Australia and Europe and last month's cyclone in Burma (Myanmar). At the same time, millions of people in China and India can now afford to buy more food and eat more grain-fed meat, causing world food demand to soar...
...Price of Success The current crisis can be traced to a perception of plenty stemming from the Green Revolution of the 1960s. Dramatically improved crop yields sent world food prices plunging, beginning a 40-year period when billions of people ate relatively cheaply. The illusion that such progress was permanent and irreversible seemed to take root alongside the high-yield hybrids, and the threat of widespread famine was assumed to have passed...
...senior levels of both campaigns) are testosterone-fueled gunslingers who often respond to perceived slights or challenges by attacking first and asking questions later. The candidates have become increasingly feisty and, at times, personal. If this keeps up, watch for petulance, errors and overreaching to crop up during a long, hot summer--and even hotter fall. REPUBLICANS DEMOCRATS...