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...land famed for its elaborate culinary arts, the best-known chef is a chubby, smiling cartoon character. Master Kong (Kang Shifu) has been gracing the packets of instant noodles since the early 1990s, and is the creation of Tingyi, a company that chairman Wei Ing-chou built out of his parents' edible-oils firm in Taiwan's rural Changhua county. Thinking that mainland China's rapid development would boost demand for the kind of quick, cheap meals that workers would fill up on during factory breaks or after a punishing shift, he decided to cross the Taiwan Strait...
...systems of payments for ecosystem services, such as compensating farmers who plant trees for carbon sequestration. These could be embedded in common asset trusts, set up to assign property rights to the community rather than private hands. Those who damage ecosystem services would be charged, while those whose land produces services could be paid. Economic incentives can encourage people to preserve natural assets. For example, in Costa Rica U.S. pharmaceutical companies are paying landowners to conserve their properties - essentially maintaining a genetic laboratory in an area with great natural wealth. (About half of manufactured drugs derive from materials found...
...other rejected 3Ls, the author offers these words of comfort: "I’m confident we will all land on our feet. And I’m certain that the experience will be an opportunity for us to find strength we didn’t know we had." We appreciate your optimism, and we wish you luck. All the same, for our own sakes, let's hope the H-bomb regains its power by the time it's our turn to don Crimson caps and gowns...
Over spring break, rugby has planned a trip to Dublin, home to the headquarters of the International Rugby Board; women’s soccer is going to Italy, the land of Del Piero and Buffon; while water polo is making their yearly trip to California for fair-weather games against the sport’s best...
...Vietnam has installed a series of sluice gates to hold back high tides as well as control annual monsoon flooding. This has allowed farmers to switch between growing rice in the wet season and raising shrimp in the brackish waters in the dry. The result has been more-effective land use and higher crop yields, and a doubling of farmers' incomes in the Delta since...