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...matter the cause, could be devastating for the pork industry and ultimately bad for consumers. According to Dave Ward and Perry Iverson of Commodity and Ingredient Hedging, LLC, a Chicago-based agricultural-risk-management consulting firm, if prices continue to fall over the coming weeks, there will be fewer pork producers next year - and less pork production, consequently. Assuming demand for pork recovers, this will lead to higher prices long-term...
...robust numbers enjoyed by new and older movies shows that Hollywood knows how to please a recession audience. Though fewer studio films were released in Jan.-Apr. 2009, the North American box-office numbers rose 16%, and attendance 14%. As Gitesh Pandya notes on boxofficeguru.com, "the number of $20M+ openers rose from 11 last year to 18 this year while the amount of films crossing the $100M mark skyrocketed from just one in 2008 to six in the current year." Pandya points out that the summer biggies should benefit from the success of off-season fare, since moviegoers get bombarded...
...However, Obama appointed three Republicans to his cabinet, pursued centrist policies in Iraq and Afghanistan that Senator John McCain has praised, included in his stimulus package one of the largest tax cuts in history despite calls from the left for fewer tax cuts and more spending, and resisted calls for nationalizing major banks. To claim that Obama has been the most partisan president ever, therefore, is both disingenuous and more than a little partisan itself...
Controversies like the Leyva death could prod Mexico to improve its general public health system once the epidemic has passed. The country of 110 million people still has fewer than two doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, almost half the average of countries belonging to the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In rural states and Oaxaca and Veracruz, where Mexico's first swine-flu cases (and first death) are believed to have emerged in late March and early April, access to physicians and nurses is even more threadbare. The nation's public health budget is about...
...other areas.The 2007 study reported that, in 2002-2003, a mere 69 percent of rural, public -high-school students attended schools offering Advanced Placement courses, compared to 93 percent of public-high-school students in cities and 96 percent in suburbs. Rural public schools historically have also had fewer instructional computers with Internet access per capita and lower-paid teachers (even after adjusting for the lower cost of living in rural areas). On the other hand, expenditures per student have tended to be higher, and student-teacher ratios lower, in rural areas compared to cities and suburbs. Like elsewhere...