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...example, as cultural or economic attachés in embassy-based CIA stations, and reopen stations that closed when the cold war ended. Camp Peary, the CIA's secret training center in eastern Virginia, runs a roughly six-month course to mint new spies for such postings. Classes at the Farm, as it's called, are packed, officials...
...point to pale-faced conquerors from Britain and central Asia who forcefully instilled a reverence for whiteness. Cultural conservatives complain Hollywood is pushing aside Indian heroes in favor of Westerners all too ready to display their pale flesh. Some sociologists argue that in a country where most people still farm, dark skin is associated with lowly labor in the outdoors...
...reaches supermarkets. Much of it is stuffed into government surplus warehouses or passed on to other countries as food aid. Foreign rice that does reach store shelves is made so expensive by tariffs that it poses no threat to domestic rice?which is also pricey, because the average Japanese farm is small and production costs are high. Japanese consumers pay as much as 10 times more for their rice than Americans, according to Eric Wailes, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Arkansas. If Japan allowed rice to be imported freely, Wailes estimates that the price of imported...
...sponges during heavy rains and are a buffer against erosion, according to farmers. "The rice paddies prevent floods and landslides and maintain the Japanese landscape," says Masahiro Konno, general manager at the WTO office of Japan's Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives. "A destruction of the rice farm will destroy agriculture in Japan...
...subsidized price it pays farmers for their rice as part of an effort to prepare them for increased competition when the market opens. That sliced Yuk's revenue by about 20%. He sells heating equipment on the side to make ends meet. After he retires, Yuk realizes his farm will likely close up altogether. His daughter is studying art and his son architecture. Neither wants to take over the family paddy. "I don't want to force them," Yuk says. "There's no future in becoming a farmer." In South Korea, he may well be right...