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...clothing. But in both the U.S. and the European Union, the farm lobby is powerful. In the U.S., for example, domestic producers have long succeeded in imposing quotas on sugar imported from the Caribbean, though it is one of the islands' crops of comparative advantage. European governments, with the French at the fore, have always sought protection for their farmers as a way of preserving the rural environment and village life. Nick Stern, chief economist of the World Bank, recently estimated that total agricultural subsidies in the rich world were worth $300 billion a year--about equal...
.../wc/africastudio.htm) a loft-style complex close to Cape Town's liveliest restaurants and the bohemian neighborhood of Bo Kaap, or the Metropole Hotel (www.metropolehotel.co.za), which fuses Victorian architecture with one of South Africa's most modern interiors. Both hotels are close to Ginja, a modern take on a traditional French brasserie. After dinner, head upstairs to Shoga, a bar where the color of your skin matters less than what clothes you wear or what car you drive. In so many ways, South Africa is a new world...
Things seem to be going from bad to worse for the six officials of a French non-governmental organization charged with attempted kidnapping in Chad, following their Oct. 25 arrest while trying to airlift 103 children they claimed were Darfur orphans. A total of 16 European nationals will stand trial for involvement in a case that Chadian authorities initially condemned as an illegal money-for-adoption scheme praying on child refugees from war-torn Darfur. If convicted, the six French child aid workers could face 20 years of hard labor in the bizarre affair - which has created an atmosphere...
FRIES VS. VEGGIES About 19% of schools offered French fries in 2006, compared with 40% in 2000. Vegetable sales increased in the past six years: 51% of schools offered them in 2000, compared with...
...Even their name is meant to overcome the obstacle of cross-cultural appeal. “We wanted a name that you could say in any language,” Clark says. “‘Three zee plus’ can be said in German, in French. It sounds sort of silly, but it really works, since none of us share a mother tongue...