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...highest level since September on Wednesday, just as futures prices for Arabica beans - which make up the bulk of the world's supply - topped $1.35 per lb. in New York, the highest since October. Recent droughts from Sri Lanka to Kenya, meanwhile, have constrained tea production, forcing up crop prices at auction...
...President has cultivated this grass-roots support through a series of televised town-hall meetings. On Saturday, he took his road show to a high school gymnasium in Pereira, a city in the heart of Colombia's coffee belt. Rolling up his sleeves and reveling in the minutiae of crop prices and road-paving projects, Uribe seemed more like an alderman. He cracked jokes, fielded requests for new ambulances and even got into a debate over the best spot to build a small sugar mill...
...land from the locals are as unrelenting as his pursuit of Huppert's teenaged daughter Suzanne (Astrid Berges-Frisbey). In their impoverished state, the women have more in common with their Khmer neighbors than the linen-suited colonial élite. As her sea wall is breached and her rice crop withers, Duras' mother asks the colony's resident superior in a letter, "What did you give me in return for 20 years of my life [in Cambodia]? Nothing except wind, water...
...huge population of red ants has bedeviled Texas farmers for years. By some estimates the insects cost state businesses close to $1 billion a year due to crop and machinery destruction. Killing the ants and their nests has not proven easy...
...uncertain terms, that his answer was incomprehensible. At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing a few days later, Corker confronted Holbrooke about the lack of credibility both Presidents shared. According to the Obama Administration, Corker said, the Karzai government "is taking more of the illegal [poppy crop] moneys than the Taliban ..." In Pakistan, "the leader was formerly called 'Mr. 10%,'" referring to Asif Ali Zardari's alleged practice of taking kickbacks on contracts when his wife Benazir Bhutto was in charge...