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...Besides grain producers, the big winners will be American producers of meats, citrus and nuts. Sunkist shipped 350,000 cartons of oranges, grapefruit and lemons directly to Shanghai and Dalian last year--an amount expected to double this year--and recently started a multimedia Chinese marketing campaign. Farm-product traders such as ADM, Bunge and Cargill should also profit by being allowed to set up import and distribution companies...
...years are due to arrive in Havana. After Hurricane Michelle ravaged Cuba last month, compounding the island's steep drop in tourism revenues after Sept. 11, Castro refused relief aid from Washington, his archenemy. But the communist dictator did agree to pay $30 million in cash for grain, poultry and vegetable oil from U.S. companies like ADM and Cargill--something he had vowed earlier he would never do. Under pressure from U.S. business and farmers, Congress last year loosened the economic embargo against Cuba, in force since 1962, by allowing commercial sales of food and medicine, as long as Castro...
...predicted for Virgos in this issue of Glamour is more to my liking. "Do have fun." See there, a simple imprecise horoscope that will apply nicely to you, me and the 219,000 other people who read it and take the whole business, of course, with a grain of salt...
...that my public persona is to disagree with everyone here.” At once, this statement demonstrates the enigma that is Douthat; equal parts self-assured philosopher, edgy politician, and aspiring author, he is ultimately far too thoughtful not to take the hype surrounding his persona without a grain of proverbial salt...
...least there were laws. (Rough justice is no excuse, of course, for the Taliban's intellectual and cultural oppression.) But now, as the three warlords who control Jalalabad remain inside their walled compounds, residents on the dusty streets outside fear their city will slip into medieval disorder. Relief grain sent by the World Food Program sits in warehouses, as deliveries remain too dangerous to complete. Bandits have overrun the most important road in Afghanistan, from Jalalabad to Kabul, rendering it impassable to anyone without an armed escort (four journalists traveling along it were executed on Nov. 26). Blood feuds that...