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...little freaked out trying to come up with--at my editor's request--a recession-gourmet meal for four people for around $10. And Colicchio is not mistaken: the average retail price of a 5-lb. (2.3 kg) bag of flour has jumped 34% from last July, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The costs of other staples like eggs and cheddar cheese 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...
...company than an aid agency. Every Monday through Friday - weekends too if there's an emergency - empty trucks pull up at the warehouse in Kampala, bound for destinations around Uganda and neighboring countries. Nearly 200 porters jog around the warehouse, a steady stream of men carrying 100-lb (50 kg) bags of food on their heads. Trains and trucks arrive full from local traders and from the port city of Mombasa, Kenya, where ships bring donated food from the U.S. and other Western countries. (About two-thirds of WFP's food here is purchased locally, and one-third is donated...
...liked to run in the fields near my village," she begins softly. The propaganda official steps in. "But now, she prefers weight-lifting," he says. "Her goal is to become a star athlete and make China proud." Cloud looks down at her callused hands, which can thrust 35 kg into the air but are now shaking from nerves. "I prefer weight-lifting now," she says. "I want to become a star athlete and make China proud...
Thanks to Asia's construction boom, the price of copper has risen from less than $1 per pound (0.45 kg) in 2003 to more than $4 per pound in April, and burglars are lifting the metal wherever they can find it. The copper in plumbing, air conditioners, utility wire, rain gutters, sprinklers and bronze sculptures like Dan (bronze is a copper alloy) is easy to sell and tough to trace, police say, making it a popular cash source for meth addicts...
Adolph, 26, arrived at the Zanmi Lasante Hospital in Thomonde, Haiti, so ravaged from advanced AIDS that doctors gave her days to live. At just 75 lb. (34 kg), she was covered in sores and couldn't walk, and her digestive system had practically shut down. But after 2 1/2 months of arv treatments, Adolph is no longer just clinging to life. Her wounds have healed, and she has enough energy to walk a mile to get water, babysit, help with chores and even do occasional fieldwork. She lives with her brother, his wife and their six children...