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...have also gone way up. And since Americans have been spending about 10% of their income on food for the past 25 years or so, rising prices do not mean people are eating less--they're just buying cheaper stuff. "We're seeing less meat and more pizza, sandwiches, Italian pasta and casserole-type dishes," says Harry Balzer, who tracks food trends for the NPD Group, a market-research firm. "The real change that occurred in the last bout of inflation was that one of the cheapest meats became more popular: chicken...
...trade. Already the exporter of 30% of the world's dates, many destined for markets in Europe's Muslim neighborhoods, Tunisia wants to make a name for its country's nectarines, oranges, wines and even olive oil - which is currently shipped out in bulk, mixed and then bottled under Italian and Spanish labels. Mohamed Ali Jendoubi, a top agriculture ministry official, says that, with the right kind of marketing, people will seek out Tunisian products. "With our climate, our fruit has the taste of the sun," he says. "You know what we say: 'Men do the work, but nature...
...Home or Abroad So long as that dearth of investment in North Africa continues, workers will leave. Outside the southern Italian city of Foggia, the first of the summer's tomatoes could recently be seen on the vine. The local fields are worked almost exclusively by migrants. Hosseim (not his real name), 22, an illegal immigrant from Morocco, came to Europe two years ago, crammed with 65 others in a rickety fishing boat. His family owns 12 acres (5 ha) in the town of El Kelaa, 47 miles (75 km) northeast of Marrakech, but raises only a few cows...
...went further than that in a recent interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. "As soon as a writer expresses an opinion against Islamism," he said, "immediately someone on the left leaps to his feet and claims that because the majority of Muslims are dark-skinned, he who criticizes it is racist. This is logically absurd and morally unacceptable. Martin is not a racist. And I myself despise Islamism, because it wants to create a society that I detest, based on religious belief, on a text, on lack of freedom for women, intolerance towards homosexuality...
...rumblings on the specific issue of divorced Catholics were in large part stirred by the Pope himself. Shortly after rising to the papacy, Benedict said the problem needed "study." During a July 2005 meeting with priests from the Italian mountain region of Valle d'Aosta, the Pope said: "We all know that this is a particularly painful situation. None of us has a ready-made solution, because each person's situation is different...