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Gorbachev did not filibuster with the usual Kremlin excuse that human rights are an internal matter for the Soviet Union and not the business of the U.S. Rather, he discoursed at length about Soviet notions of individual freedom: freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom to secure health care--freedoms, he implied, that were not universally enjoyed by Americans. He was not sparing in his criticism of America's abuse of its own racial minorities...
Some successes are built on old-fashioned ingenuity. One recent example is Ore-Ida Foods, which makes frozen potatoes, little known in Japan until the firm arrived a year ago. Ore-Ida, a division of H.J. Heinz, had conducted surveys that revealed that busy Japanese working women had a hunger for easily prepared frozen foods. The company also showed a willingness to change its ingredients in order to please its new customers. The frozen fries in Tokyo are made with less salt than those sold in the U.S. Reason: the Japanese prefer to sprinkle the seasoning themselves. After only...
...President thinks that one life is not enough, we can offer thousands of lives." KALAWELGALA CHANDRALOKA, secretary of Sri Lanka's National Clerics Front, threatening widespread hunger strikes after one monk's near-death by fasting failed to deter Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga from a plan to distribute tsunami aid to Tamil Tiger rebels...
...tapped Wolfowitz for the job to prove that World Bank-style aid doesn't work. A satirical staff newsletter imagined that instead of bopping around Washington in a limousine, Wolfowitz would travel in an Apache helicopter. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, head of the U.N. Millennium Project to reduce global poverty, hunger and disease, questioned Wolfowitz's lack of economic and banking experience. "I have looked for evidence of Mr. Wolfowitz having development goals - I have tried to find it in his speeches, and I haven't been able to," Sachs has said. But Wolfowitz is already winning over the skeptics...
...Kang bribed North Korean and Chinese border guards, and crossed the Tumen River to China from the North Korean frontier town of Hoeryong. Like hundreds of refugees who flee totalitarian North Korea every year, Kang has plenty of reasons to leave family and home, but one gnaws at her: hunger. Kang (not her real name) says she has been surviving on corn and noodles for the past few months. With planting season in the North just beginning, food stores are short and many townspeople aren't getting enough to eat, she says. North Koreans used to be able...