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...global trade in food, asking if these really are the best means of delivering sustenance to the human race as a whole. Patel opens the book with the epidemic of farmer suicides that have hit rural India, South Korea and the United States, depicting a grim picture of despair and debt, and conclusively dispelling the strangely persistent myth of farming as some sort of pastoral pleasure. He then argues that the past century's lowering of trade barriers and opening of agricultural markets, with the help of bodies like the WTO and the World Bank, have wrested control...
...State Department, the Justice Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security. But for all the complexities that come with fighting such a stubborn plague as substance abuse, recovering drug users like Olmo say surveys and statistics can't capture the all-consuming despair of addiction. The war on drugs, he says, "is all about the numbers and money." We're at least now trying to do something about the numbers...
...kept fairly up to date on my world news in between classes, but I underestimated the absolute futility of our situation in Iraq until this summer. Harvard students are all policy wonks and budding politicians, but we lack the pathos or perspective to understand the depths of despair of American soldiers and Iraqis...
...Portuguese police have handled the case has helped stoke hostility towards the McCanns in Portugal. Last month, the couple said they would sue the Portuguese newspaper Tal & Qual over its report alleging police believe they accidentally killed their daughter. In interviews, the McCanns have expressed anger, despair and guilt over their decision to leave Madeleine alone. Choosing to leave Portugal without her will surely only make those feelings stronger. With reporting by Martha de la Cal/Lisbon
Contrary to Bogle's prediction, though, the rise of the credentialed pros and commensurate decline of often ill-informed part-timers haven't stabilized a thing. This year we've seen the professionally managed market for mortgage securities travel from giddy abandon to deep despair in a matter of months, dragging other markets down with it. That's just this year: think back to the rise and fall of the dotcoms, the emerging-markets meltdown of 1997 and 1998, the bond crash of 1994, the stock crash of 1987. As Bogle put it a few years back, "Keynes one, Bogle...