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...doctors who treat injured folk, we love the self-employed - they'll barely take the afternoon off to have surgery, and one way or another, manage to get back to work that week to keep the business going, get the mortgage paid and feed the family. Even among the salaried folks, we do see a good percentage who take sick-time fairly and responsibly. What a glaring contrast they are to the corporate or government employee whose minor injury keeps him out - but paid - for months at a time. Months during which we are forced to fill out ever more...
...prepared Harvard for the long Ivy road ahead. “The real reason we won is because everyone contributed,” McKinley said. “The Dartmouth tournament is always a blast, and although [the Dartmouth players] are rivals, we have great respect for them and feed off of their energy.” HARVARD 3, ST. FRANCIS 0 The Crimson controlled the third and final game against St. Francis (0-18), taking only 50 minutes to clinch the tournament title, dominating the Terriers by scores of 25-13, 25-6, and 25-7. The games were...
...Although they are not currently suspected by authorities of using melamine, farmers may have played an indirect role in the crisis, says Joseph Cheng, who runs the Contemporary China Research Project at City University of Hong Kong. That's because farmers were squeezed between the rising cost of cattle feed and government-imposed caps on the price of milk. "The feed price rises, the milk price is low and they lose money," Cheng says. "What do you do? You feed the cattle with low-quality feed. Then the quality of the milk is very bad and the protein content...
...food aid programs because they depend so heavily on western agricultural producers, such as the U.S. and Europe, and fail to help farmers in poor countries. When a crisis hits, as it did in Ethiopia this summer, the WFP typically asks governments to donate millions in emergency funds to feed people. That help comes either in food supplies or in cash, which the organization then uses to buy huge quantities of rice, maize and other staples from large-scale distributors. Aside from disasters like famines or earthquakes, the WFP also regularly feeds many poor people, including millions of children...
...Click here for a look at the World Food Program's efforts to feed the people of Uganda...