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...hated my damn ant farm and she let 800 ants starve to death,” he said...
...Jones was born December 19, 1943, in Kansas City, Mo., but lived for much of his youth in France, where his father sold farm machinery...
...Since reforms started 30 years ago, China hasn't been able to keep peasants down on the farm anymore - and that was a resounding sign of success. Now, as Christmas approaches, China's North Pole is shutting down, and millions may have to stream back to the farms. For the leaders in Beijing and in the provinces, that's not success. That's trouble...
...Haroon Ibra Diar described how, when his people fled to Chad, the janjaweed were already employing their own macabre energy-saving measures. "They beheaded people and used their heads for firewood," he said. I asked him what the future held. "We are farmers," he replied. "But how can we farm here? There's not even enough water to drink. It's a land of death...
Heartland Heartache I am a libertarian and can't abide free government handouts, so I agree to an extent with Michael Grunwald's argument for farm-bill revision [Nov. 17]. However, I must contest some of his findings. He states, "The median farmer's net worth is five times the median American's." Of course it is - farmers own tons of acres; but let's see you try to operate your business when all that net worth is tied up in land. In addition, he claims, "the biofuel boom is also jacking up the price of grain." Yet the price...