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...magazine arrived at its list of 50 by paring down an original crop of 117 area restaurants reviewed in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Boston Phoenix, the Phantom Gourmet, Yelp, Zagat, and online food discussion community Chowhound...
...Obama advisers say, the more urgent push is filling the top slot at HHS. Aides believe that the crop of current and former Democratic governors provide some possible candidates who have the right credentials. Among them is Kansas' Kathleen Sebelius, who served a stint as the state's insurance commissioner before being elected Governor. Sebelius has the advantage of having already been vetted by the Obama team, in last summer's Vice Presidential search, but she also withdrew her name for Cabinet posts' consideration in early December, citing the deteriorating budget in her home state. Other possibilities include Pennsylvania Governor...
...crop in Burma hasn't been affected: poppies, the colorful blooms that have been processed into opium for thousands of years, and, in more recent history, refined into heroin. A Feb. 2 report by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime found that the price of opium in Burma, also known as Myanmar, increased by 15% last year. As a result, Burmese land dedicated to poppy cultivation actually expanded in 2008, despite promises by the country's ruling junta to combat its reputation as one of the world's most notorious narco-states...
News for farmers making a living off the isolated fields and forests of Burma has been dismal over the past few months. Prices for rubber, a key crop, are down an estimated 75% in the southeastern Mon State. Rice has lost a quarter of its value, while maize has been cut by half. Teak, betel nut and palm oil have also been ravaged by the global drop in commodity prices, throwing millions of Burmese who barely cling to the poverty line further into distress...
...Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy announced its latest crop of fellows earlier this week, welcoming a group of four journalists and academics who will study issues currently confronting news outlets...