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...higher than other crops like coffee or soy. Washington’s “Apocalypse Now”-like burning of fields might work in areas with violent seditious guerrillas like Colombia’s FARC, but in Bolivia, aerial spraying destroys peoples’ opportunities to feed their families. Burning crops in distant Inca lands only prevents politicians from facing the real problem of demand, whether it is in Amsterdam’s dark alleys or Los Angeles’ celebrity pubs...
...yard freestyle relay and the 200- and 400-yard medley relays. “When he broke the record, everyone was excited—he swam well and got a great time,” Cocks said. “It got everyone moving, and people can really feed off of that type of energy.” Yet the pool record meant more to Cromwell than just team motivation. The victory was something personal. “I have been a little haunted by the pool record for all year, and that just added fuel to the fire...
Harvard students will no longer need to mooch off Boloco’s free wireless to feed their e-mail addicitions on the way back to their dorms from Lamont. By the summer of 2006, even scholars sans Blackberry can reach the Secure CRT nirvana of perpetual e-mail checking. Harvardians, MITechies—nay, all Cantabrigians—shall rejoice: a wireless blanket will descend on Cambridge. As a result of collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and the City of Cambridge, students and citizens alike will be able to reap the benefits of free wireless...
...millions of illegal aliens who enter the country through the southern border every year, hundreds of thousands are caught and detained by immigration and customs officials. That's a lot of mouths to feed. In fiscal year 2005, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) alone spent $2.6 million on food for detainees along the southern border. This year, with $1.7 million already spent since Oct. 1, the CBP is on track to double that amount. The figures are line items in CBP's budget and the total dollar amount spent on food is likely much higher, says a CBP official, since...
...with an English major. Often, educators at the elementary level never liked science in the first place. That's in part because science enthusiasts, who start at about $32,000 in a public school teaching job, are lured to careers in the business world. "Corporate America is eating its feed corn," says Wheeler. Women who excel in science today, he says, have career options that weren't open to them in the Sputnik era, a victory for equality but a loss for schools. "Teachers are so frightened of these subjects that they transmit the fear to the children," says former...