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...rice traders are resistant to selling their stocks for much less than they would get on the international market. That means less rice on the domestic market and higher prices for Indians. As economist Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar wrote recently in the Times of India, cutting exports is a form of national hoarding: "Governments would like to believe that hoarding by traders is terrible, whereas hoarding by governments promotes the public interest. But the impact on prices is exactly the same. Indeed, when governments start to hoard food out of panic, the panic itself stokes further inflationary fears...
...father, Séra routinely escaped into the pages of French comics, and again as a young refugee in Paris. Now the author of a dozen graphic novels - three of which have been about Cambodia's war years - he is working to rekindle Cambodia's interest in the art form. Since his debut showing in Phnom Penh, he has been regularly returning to the city of his boyhood to hold workshops for aspiring illustrators. "It's important to try to approach the reality of our times," he says. "This is a media that only needs a pen and paper...
...When you don’t just think technically, but actually connect with other people’s ideas, you can form a solidarity that goes beyond physical projects,” Norman says. “You can really understand them better and they can understand you better...
...stereotypes “come with the territory. It’s so much athletics and manliness. There was a certain pressure to be the best at what you do.”Although both boys noted a certain pressure to be one of the guys, Zaza recalls that forming female friendships in high school was easy—maybe even easier than at Harvard. Friendships with members of the opposite sex are typically encouraged by these schools, many of which have counterparts in their “brother” or “sister” institutions...
...grave as that. The Ohio survey, which analyzed data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, included reports from 100 U.S. emergency rooms between 1990 and 2005. Five of every 1,000 children, ages 6 to 17 - about 27,000 children in all - who participated in some form of gymnastics sought medical care in the ER each year for a gymnastics-related injury. About 97% of the children were treated and released, mostly with sprains or strains - serious injuries, but not severe enough to require admittance to the hospital...