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...Meanwhile, break out your hemp suits and recipes for cannabis-glazed ham: the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws holds its annual Harvest Festival in Port Clinton, Ohio...
Humans, in short, have little to fear from sharks. The reverse, however, isn't close to being true. Fish of all kinds are being hauled from the sea faster than they can reproduce, but until quite recently sharks were exempt from this reckless harvest. Not anymore. Each year between 30 million and 100 million sharks are caught for their meat (boneless and mild-tasting), their fins (a great delicacy in Asia), their hides (source of an exotic, high-quality leather), their jaws (worth thousands of dollars from collectors) and their internal body parts (made into everything from lubricants to cosmetics...
VOLGOGRAD, Russia: Struggling to compensate workers in the cash-strapped post-Soviet era, Russian bureaucrats in Volgograd have turned to an even older form of payment to offer their workers: Turnips. And carrots, beets, and other assorted vegetables from the local harvest. The workers, who are owed about $175,000, refused the offer and staged a one hour protest strike. They say they will strike for real next week if they are not paid in cash. But in a country where even soldiers are reduced to begging on street corners to make enough cash for lunch, workers might ultimately have...
Hunger in America in times of plenty? Second Harvest, the largest food-bank network in the country, says that about half its 183 food-distribution centers have reported increased demand over the past year. In a study the group produced with Tufts University, it says that with government accounting for only 13.4% of publicly distributed food (down from 22.2% in 1991), the private sector will have to make up for the shortfall by distributing a total of 24.5 billion lbs. of food in the next six years--enough to fill 5 million Army National Guard trucks. Second Harvest says...
...Second Harvest study blames the increases on the onset of state and federal welfare reform. Virginia, Michigan and Wisconsin food pantries reported increases; all three passed welfare-reform laws during the past two years. But the decline in middle-income jobs may be culpable as well. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows some of the largest gains in job growth among the lowest-paying categories. Poquoson, Va., resident Tim Strickland, 39, makes $25,000 a year. But last year he hurt his back and temporarily left his job as a water-treatment-plant operator. "I was living penny by penny...