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...that the freeze hit with 70% of California's citrus still hanging on the tree. Unlike many other fruits, such as cherries, oranges aren't picked until they are ready to be sold. Some 12,000 fruit pickers and packers will now lose months of work, as a harvest meant to last until June will now probably end in March, after the remaining fruit is picked...
...dominated by illicit opium production, which by some estimates accounts for as much as one-third of GDP. About 40% of Afghans are unemployed. And last month, the World Food Program warned that millions of rural Afghans might starve this winter because a prolonged drought has devastated the wheat harvest...
...prescient, but it's definitely bad. It's about--to pick a few examples from its ashtray of half-finished plots--a man who gets treated for cancer and survives, only to find that unscrupulous doctors have patented his family's cancer-resistant cell line and are trying to harvest it by force from his relatives. Also, a scientist who inadvertently crosses his genes with that of a chimp and creates a talking monkey. And some other scientist who comes up with a gene-therapy treatment that makes irresponsible people more mature. Had enough? No? There's a transgenic parrot...
...will feature traditional Thanksgiving fare, vegetarian entrees, and a selection of pastas. The annual dinners rotate among Dunster, Adams and Quincy Houses, according to Martin. Pricier and classier options in the Square on Thanksgiving day include Henrietta’s Table at the Charles Hotel and Harvest Restaurant on Brattle Street—and, of course, munchkins at Dunkin’ Donuts until 5 p.m. Some students will be spending their time on a noble cause and saving the $55 that Henrietta’s Table charges for its Thanksgiving buffet. Harvard Square Homeless Shelter is providing a Thanksgiving meal...
...this year, the word "hunger" no longer applies. That curious change in language, which the Washington Post denounced as "linguistic airbrushing," inspired some poverty activists to charge officials with trying to cover up the problem. "We're very concerned about 'hunger' disappearing," said Ross Fraser of America's Second Harvest, the country's largest hunger-relief charity. "How do you talk about hunger if the government isn't providing you with data about hunger?" It was easy to suspect a conspiracy, that someone in the government who didn't like the fact that every year for the last five...