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...Getting the pepper crop to market may have been as important for the Secretary of State as it was for Palestinian farmers: She considers a stable, self-sustaining Palestinian economy a cornerstone of the prospects for achieving peace via Palestinian statehood, and until other industries took root, Gaza's harvest would be a key component of the local economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Rice Won a Mideast Deal | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

...weeks earlier, Rice had been warned by James Wolfensohn, the former World Bank chief sent by the U.S. and its allies as a special envoy to help reboot the Palestinian economy, that Gaza's harvest, which was almost due, would be likely to rot in warehouses. That was because Israel, which controls all access points into the Palestinian territories even after withdrawing from Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority had been unable to reach an agreement that would let inhabitants of the territories travel and trade. The two sides were inches from a deal, Wolfensohn said, but were hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Rice Won a Mideast Deal | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

...Wolfensohn had proposed to break the deadlock by having European personnel police the Rafah crossing, but the Israelis still insisted on access to the surveillance camera video feeds and computer data streams at the crossing. Also, the Palestinians wanted to have final authority. The Palestinians also complained the harvest couldn't wait for the months it would take to comply with Israeli demands that they install state-of-the-art scanners to screen trucks. So Wolfensohn threatened to walk, leaving the two sides, as he recounted over the weekend, to "blow each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Rice Won a Mideast Deal | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

...document commits Israel to permit the immediate export of the pepper crop and the rest of the Gaza harvest "on an urgent basis." By Dec. 15, Israel agreed, Israeli border authorities would process 150 export trucks a day through the Karni commercial crossing into their territory, and by the end of next year, that number would increase to 400 trucks a day. Israel also agreed to allow the movement of bus convoys between Gaza and the West Bank starting Dec. 15, allowing travel between Palestinian territories physically separated by Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Rice Won a Mideast Deal | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

...modifying the six identifiers on menu cards in dining halls, replacing “percentage of calories from fat” with the amounts of saturated fat and fiber. The efforts promoting nutrition literacy extend beyond the College dining halls, as well. At this year’s annual Harvest of Health Fair, representatives from the HSPH spoke with students and distributed literature on issues from eating disorders to the effects of sleep deprivation on weight gain...

Author: By Giselle Barcia | Title: Fighting the Freshman Fifteen | 10/28/2005 | See Source »

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