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...foresaw this dilemma a decade ago, when coffee prices, which had been falling since the end of the Cold War, dropped to as low as 45˘ per lb. Fair Trade was the small farmer's savior during that crisis, paying twice the going rate. Starbucks joined the cause and this year has pledged to double the amount of Fair Trade coffee it buys, to 40 million lb., 40% of the Fair Trade beans the U.S. imports. The company declined to comment on whether Fair Trade's benefits fall short of its vision or how much it would need to raise...
...fairly liberal House health-care bills; after many dramatic (and unpleasant) town meetings, Kratovil was against all of them. Now he hopes the Senate measure will be more moderate and less costly than the three House versions. "I can't support the House versions," he says. "But in the end, I wouldn't rule out some compromise with the Senate...
...identified insurgents in Iraq, continues to be one of the biggest suppliers of fighters to regional conflicts. It's common knowledge in the tearooms of Sana'a and in Western embassies that the government of northern Yemen used jihadis to help defeat the south in the civil war that ended in 1994. But the symbiotic relationship between the government and al-Qaeda shifted after 9/11 and the American invasion of Iraq, when the Yemeni government worried that it too might be on the receiving end of U.S. military action. Sana'a helped the U.S. with the assassination of a leader...
...They’re an extremely good team,” Pollak said of Yale. “Playing that course on a day-to-day basis helps them a lot. They may be little half-stroke advantages, but in the end, it adds up to a significant difference...
...goal play, the quarterback hit junior tight end Alex Wojdowski for a one-yard touchdown pass. An extra point from kicker Tom Randazza made the score 7-0 in favor of the home team...