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...movement in "Can Slow Food Feed the World" [Sept. 15]. First, ?organic farming yields less per acre than industrial farming" only if it is done by industrial-style methods. John Jeavons' Bountiful Gardens project proves that all the food a person needs-and all the natural fertilizer needed to grow that food-can be produced on one-sixteenth of an acre if biointensive organic methods are used. Second, if all Americans ate organic food we would not need 40 million full-time farmers, as Walsh claims, but probably 30 million gardeners. Rex Morris, Vashon, Washington...
...economy rather than any bigger meltdown. Certainly, the situation today is very different from a decade ago, he and others point out: Russia currently has a whopping $550 billion in foreign-currency reserves, a hefty budget surplus, a negligible national debt and an economy that remains on course to grow by 7% this year. The fount of much of the nation's newfound wealth - oil and gas - isn't affected by these banking liquidity problems. As long as the price of oil stays somewhere above about $70 per barrel, the windfall profits will continue to roll in. Moreover, only about...
...Lula and his leftist Workers' Party would trash Brazil's emerging economy by pursuing socialist policies. Instead, Lula shrewdly embraced fiscal sobriety, strengthening Brazil's currency, the real, and reforming a bloated civil service pension system. Those policies and a windfall in commodities fueled a boom--the economy will grow 5% or more again this year, and inflation is historically low. Even his rivals acknowledge that despite his firebrand image, Lula has been a deft political operator. "The danger with Lula is that he can be rather messianic," says Rubens Ricúpero, a Finance Minister in the 1990s, when Lula opposed...
...fiction through narratives of imperial bravado. But this won't do for Ghosh, a veteran postcolonialist. He instead depicts India as it most likely was under the thumb of Britain's East India Company. Its once bounteous countryside is now run by Company edict, with farmers ordered to grow poppies to feed colossal opium factories, in whose noxious environs even monkeys slump in "a miasma of lethargy." Their fields given over to drug cultivation, thousands of starving, impoverished villagers leave for new pastures as indentured labor in Mauritius, a place so remote that it is thought to be a "demon...
...sheer scale of the carnage cannot be denied. Sydney Schanberg, then the New York Times's South Asia correspondent, described the month-long Pakistani crackdown in March 1971 as "a pogrom on a vast scale" in a land where "vultures grow fat." (He would famously win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting five years later on Cambodia's killing fields.) Passing through the charred husks of villages razed by West Pakistani troops, he heard whispered story after story of mass executions of Hindus, college students and anybody suspected of Bengali nationalism. Neighborhoods were gutted as Bangladesh's main cities fell...