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...BREAK Raised in Oakland, Calif., Lappé studied education at Brown University and spent a year teaching history in South Africa. She earned a master's degree in economic and political development from Columbia University, turning her thesis into a book about the root causes of hunger and poverty, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, co-written with her mom. "Globally, we're producing enough food not only to be well fed but to get chubby," says Lappé. "If more citizens rather than corporations had a say in decisions being made about our food, there wouldn...
...Asia. With economic prowess comes geopolitical power. For many countries, exports to China have replaced exports to the U.S. as engines of growth?one reason why a longtime U.S. ally like South Korea is cozying up to China. Moreover, China's appetite for raw materials (and India's hunger in the future) is shifting political power from industrialized countries to resource-rich ones, giving leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Ch?vez and Vladimir Putin extra clout...
...friends and relatives. The book is a nonpartisan agenda for black progress. Its prescriptions range from the individual-- "Invest in a home computer"--to the societal--"Strengthen the Voting Rights Act." The Covenant's success may have surprised the publishing world but not Smiley, who says, "There is a hunger and a thirst on the part of black people for leadership--a blueprint, a game plan, a guidebook, for how to make black America better...
...head. They can strut down a catwalk, don mock Madonna headset microphones and pester their parents to buy Role Model perfume or a LOCAL CELEBRITY T shirt. It would be easy to bemoan the trend as the end of childhood or the corruption of innocence. But the hunger for recognition doesn't end with the acquisition of a driver's license. As popular culture divides into ever more finely split niches, with Yahoo Groups and blogs touting the cream of whatever subculture you can think of a domain name for, famous is just a matter of answering your e-mail...
...There is a hunger in China for Mao as a human being,” Terrill said, adding that many Chinese are fascinated by the personal details of Mao’s life that have not typically been part of the nation’s public discourse...