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This is the kind of holiday we need right now, an intrinsically complicated one that comes at the end of a bitter harvest and yet finds something sweet to celebrate. Everyone is a pilgrim now, stripped down to bare essentials and a single carry-on bag to sustain us in a strange new world. So no wonder people are making a special effort to get home this year, set the table, unfold the napkins, make the time for a messy conversation with the people who know us best. This is where we find out how we are really doing...
Though the relatively steep prices might put Metro in the once-in-a-while category with the likes of Sandrines and Harvest, dinner there, or breakfast or lunch for that matter, would definitely be a treat...
American farmers will harvest the benefits of China's membership. Beijing promised to limit agricultural subsidies and to cut tariffs from 21% to an average of 17%. American soybean growers expect some of the biggest payoffs. They now face tariffs that can reach to more than 50%, but after China's accession those barriers will fall to only...
...wrecked capital of Kabul at the time of the first attacks. "The women and children went out into the street. In Kabul there's no safe place to hide from bombs anyway." That's why some got out of town; October is the time of the grape and melon harvest in Afghanistan, so trucks laden with fruit lumbered for 24 hours down the road from Kabul to the markets in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar. In Jalalabad, just up the Khyber Pass from Peshawar, 60% of the population is thought to have fled to the relative safety of mountain...
...Ibrahim, a veteran of the mujahedin struggle against the Soviets from 1979-89, has a small farm at the base of the mountains in Nangarhar. He used to harvest wheat and corn and grow walnuts, apricots and grapes on his land. But since the onset of drought, he hasn't been able to grow enough to live on, so he came to Karkhla. He is not officially registered as a refugee and has no ID papers, but the Pakistani police leave people like him alone as long as they don't try to make their way to a major city...