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...that this year's harvest will be confiscated to feed soldiers and tighten control over rural opposition strongholds. "All basic foods are now under direct military control," says Eddie Cross, an economist and adviser to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. The latest exercise - dubbed Operation Taguta/ Sisuthi or "eat well" - has been disastrous, according to a report released last month by the Solidarity Peace Trust, a South African human-rights group. The group says the army has left communities without enough grain to feed themselves, despite a year of bumper harvests. The food grab and increasing militarization...
...beloved teams, Barcelona and Arsenal, must play each other in the final of the uefa Champions League in Paris this week. What glory! What pain! This is the sporting equivalent of those thought experiments about desert-island cannibalism. Which of my loves will I be forced to eat? I have, over the years, constructed a theory that linked Arsenal and Barcelona in an alliance of virtue. Like the cartoon superheroes that reside together in the Hall of Justice, Arsenal and Barça had, in my mind, joined to battle the game's bad guys - namely, Chelsea and Real Madrid...
...instance, both types of mom drive their children to activities on average almost three days a week. Both types of mom get their children to help with chores almost five days a week. Both eat dinner with their kids nearly five days a week. Both moms - in combination with the dads - help kids with homework more than six times a week...
...have already taken steps to reduce the presence of soft drinks in schools, but this joint decision has a vastly larger reach. Although removing soft drinks from schools does not, by itself, fully address concerns about childhood obesity in the U.S., it is an important step towards encouraging healthy eating in children. While soft drinks make up a small part of most children’s caloric intake, the calories they do contain provide little nutritional value and are less filling than calories consumed through food. As former President Bill Clinton, who helped to broker the agreement, noted...
...During public comment, councillors routinely trickle in late to the meeting, talk amongst themselves, prepare their documents, or leave the chamber to eat...