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...grandfather owned a thresher, the only one in the village at that time. When Communist officials took my grandfather's land and thresher away as part of "collectivization," they forced him into service for the collectivity. In exchange for his work he received a far smaller portion of the harvest than he did when his thresher was his own. The propaganda of volunteering for the community did not work for him and for many others mainly because the members of the community received too little to lead a decent life...
...where food is most available, rations for bureaucrats have been reduced to between 3 and 6 oz. of rice per day. Many factories have closed; the rest are operating at 25% of capacity. Pyongyang is without electricity for hours each day. Many farmers are too weak from hunger to harvest crops or plant seeds. Not only have poor diets made North Koreans shorter and lighter over the past 20 years, but parents "may be raising a generation with lower IQs because of the malnutrition," says a U.S. official with access to the intelligence reports...
Gomes quoted New England's First Fruits, a book written by an anonymous author during the mid-1600s to attract European investors to the colonial effort. "The Indians were to be the first fruits of a great general harvest," he said. "They were to be the vanguard of the reformation of the world...
Within the cycle of a single season, from winter pruning to fall harvest, Barich constructs a coherent world whose natural beauty can be coldly indifferent. Disease, obsolescence and bad timing threaten both man and grape. Arthur, the working stiff, confronts that fate with inconspicuous stoicism. Intellectual Anna is more expressive: "Everything on earth was frail and fleeting, destined to crumble," she reflects. "All you could cling to in the end were those loving particulars." Among them are Atwater's favorite lopping shears, which he uses to clear deadwood to make way for new growth. They are the unmistakable metaphor...
...would mark a significant turnaround for South Korea, which previously has refused to link food aid to negotiations. Any aid carries painful political baggage for North Korea, which was forced to back down earlier this week from its official "socialist paradise" ideology with a public admission that severe grain harvest shortfalls were causing "temporary food problems." Relief workers warn that North Korea is headed toward a famine which would surpass even the 1985 Ethiopian food crisis, with potential victims numbering in the tens of millions...