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...much of Asia, rice farming remains small-scale and inefficient. In Thailand, for example, average yields are less than half that of either Chinese or U.S. farms. At the same time, Asia's rapid urbanization has gobbled up fecund farmland. In Vietnam's Bac Ninh province, 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Hanoi, shimmering emerald paddy fields are now bisected by a four-lane highway. Not far from where rice farmer Nguyen Thi Lan stands weeding her fields in calf-deep muck, a Singapore-Vietnamese joint venture will soon build a 1,700-acre (700 hectare) industrial park and township...
...guys experimenting with huge alcohol and huge bitterness--but it has only 28 breweries, and the intensity of the beer will freak out anyone who grew up on Bud. But Denver, dubbed the Napa of Beer, is the most tourist-friendly. It has 74 breweries within 100 miles (160 km) of downtown, restaurants that often offer beer-vs.-wine pairings, the yearly Great American Beer Festival and the country's first chief beer officer...
...While his mother was helping poor people in Indonesia, Obama was trying to do something similar 7,000 miles (about 11,300 km) away in Chicago, as a community organizer. Ann's friends say she was delighted by his career move and started every conversation with an update of her children's lives. "All of us knew where Barack was going to school. All of us knew how brilliant he was," remembers Ann's friend Georgia McCauley. (See pictures of Obama in Asia...
...CASINOS 19,078 Residents per sq km in Macau, which has passed Monaco as the world's most crowded gambling enclave $36,357 Per capita GDP of Macau, making it Asia's richest place...
...ZNAIGUI, MOROCCO Grueling 243-km Sand Marathon begins...