Word: grains
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...says that in her hometown north of Pyongyang (she prefers we don't name it) the price of grain in the black market has risen, but people can't afford to buy it: Although salaries have been raised, the government has only actually paid them once since July. People need to supplement meager government rations with rice bought at exorbitant prices on the black market. "This was a reform for the rich," says Lee. "Things are worse than before...
Past all-dance shows Against the Grain and Perpetual Motion were successes in the A.R.T. mainstage, but the creators of Ex-Rated felt dance wasn’t utilized by Harvard and the HRDC enough. Performed in the round, with a dance center and stadium seating on four sides, “Ex-Rated” is sure to be a new experience for anyone at Harvard...
...vertical ray. Onement III (1949) is a version of the painting he saw as a personal breakthrough. About the height of a man, the canvas has one scarlet stripe on an opaque burgundy background. The surface is hardly modulated, so that details such as the rough canvas grain and the stripe's distressed paint become the story. The exhibition recreates Newman's first solo show, in 1950, in the Betty Parsons Gallery. He had helped Parsons put on shows of Native American and contemporary art, but his own work baffled the public, critics and his friends, who had not followed...
...solution is clear: Immediate distribution of non-GM grains like wheat and rapid milling of GM corn, to be shipped directly to the Zambian people. But major U.S. grain companies have been actively lobbying to use only non-milled GM crops for aid in an attempt to corner the African grain market. If GM crops contaminate Zambia, it will neither be able to sell excess crops to the European Union nor continue to grow GM grain without buying further shipments of seed grain from America...
...Milled grain will alleviate the desperate famine currently faced by Zambia while preserving the purity of Zambian crop strains and thus their export potential to European markets. American companies should not be allowed to prevent milled grain from reaching Africa...