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...Building shiny new stores to meet that demand is easy. The hard part will be supplying them with fresh, clean and safe vegetables and fruit through a sophisticated supply chain that links farms and consumers, country and cities. It's here that the real revolution lies. At the moment, India has one of the most fragmented produce-supply chains on the planet. Industry experts estimate more than 30% of all fresh produce is lost or spoils before it reaches the market. On average, goods pass through six or seven middlemen before a consumer can buy it, resulting in tortuous journeys...
...other end of the 5,600-sq-m warehouse, men unload crates of grapes from a truck pulled up to a spotless loading dock. A quality-control expert samples every tenth crate; if the grapes are good a team will ready them for delivery within hours to Reliance Fresh stores around Bangalore and as far away as Hyderabad and even Mumbai (formerly Bombay). If they're not, workers will inspect the entire shipment and discard anything below standard. Uniformed men spray lemons with water, cover crates of coriander with moistened burlap to stop the greens wilting and scan bar codes...
...showers there, but, unlike the shuttered shelter in Sangatte, no one will be allowed to sleep in the building. The plan has outraged some politicians in Britain, where, as in Sarkozy's campaign, immigration is a hot issue. Conservative Party immigration spokesman Damian Green has said he fears a fresh stampede of illegal immigrants from a new Calais center. The Calais mayor's spokesman Bernard Barron counters that his city has no choice. "Calais has been abandoned by Europe, by France, by Britain," he says. "We are alone." The same cannot be said of Khodadadi, one of just hundreds camped...
...Thailand's ruling military junta has promised fresh elections by the end of this year. But TRT, a party that made history by capturing the biggest-ever mandate in a Thai election, will not appear on the ballot. Although lower-level TRT figures are free to form a new party, TRT's leadership coterie appears to have been sidelined from politics by the five-year ban. Even before Wednesday's ruling, Thaksin, from his overseas exile, had vowed to quit politics. Many Thais, however, believed he might attempt a political comeback. Last month, the former Prime Minister was awarded...
...Krtolica maintains that the frozen embryos StemLifeLine starts out with are only slightly less viable than fresh ones in generating stem cells lines, and that freezing cells is a routine and well understood process. So far, she says, there is no evidence that frozen stem cell lines are any less active or viable when thawed - but scientists don't yet have a lot of experience in manipulating and storing human stem cells. The most harmful part of the process, says Krtolica, is the freezing itself; "the freezing process has the biggest harm in killing cells," she says. "The number...