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...failed to fix its flat-lining economy. Instead, they have fueled rampant inflation and an uptick in public discontent. The country will require outside help to feed more than a quarter of its estimated 23 million people next year, the World Food Program warned last week, despite the best harvest in 10 years. Economic reforms have cut subsidies to households and factories while millions remain out of work. With inflation running at more than 100%, even many people with government salaries can't afford rice...
...outpouring of new products and processes is a rich harvest [including] ... Can opener-less cans. Now being test-marketed by Alcoa, the new aluminum orange juice cans have tabbed tops that peel away with a twist of the thumb ... Paper clothes. High-style paper clothes that can be thrown away after a few wearings ... A pocket-size portable record player. Put on sale by Emerson, the Wondergram plays all sizes of LP records without a turntable, is powered by four flashlight batteries, [and] weighs less than 2 lbs. ... A language- translating computer. Built by IBM, it translates Russian into English...
...find a child infected, we harvest the lice and treat them with loving kindness,” he says...
Ellroy said a few books “profoundly affected” him, including Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest, James Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, and John Gregory Dunne’s True Confessions. On the whole, though, “I don’t read much,” he admitted. “I like to brood, I like to think...
...time; there was fresh wind in the air, and a young spirit in the streets ready for a new beginning. It was going great for a few years, elections were happening and I saw my parents vote for the first time in their lives. And there was the olive harvest every year, and there were weddings, new kids in the family and life...