Word: lapped
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...farmers to produce more, which drags down world cotton prices and hurts farmers such as Diarra. "I don't blame the Americans, but I want them to allow me to make a profit," he says, sitting on a broken metal chair with his son Diakaridia, 3, wriggling on his lap. "I want to be able to take care of my family, to be able to feed them, to clothe them and to be independent of anybody...
...percent living in poor and middle-ranking countries. The Geneva meeting set a goal of bringing half the world's population online by 2015; the Tunis meeting is expected to work out a plan of action for achieving that target. Perhaps the most novel innovation: The $100 wind-up lap-top introduced by MIT director Nicholas Negroponte, who plans to have millions in production within a year in order to facilitate computerized education for the some of the world's poorest children...
...contest Boss has little time for. "They all have their own stories and they're all special in their own way," he says. "And Makybe's one of the best." Perhaps trainer Harry Telford put it best in 1930 after another spectacular Cup win: "What can I say? Phar Lap is a great horse - that seems to cover...
...hunger to know those little people better--and to have them know him. But for the retailer from New York City, it was hard. Eleven of his 16 grandchildren lived in Israel, and when he did see them, he laments, "they didn't exactly jump into my lap...
...Harbater had one great tool for bridging that divide: his airplane. Although he could not fly his six-seat Centurian across the Atlantic, he was able to fly his visiting 21/2-year-old granddaughter from Farmingdale, N.Y., to Toronto. Squirming on her mom's lap, Liba stretched out her arms toward him, plaintively wailing "Gampa!" Harbater took her onto his lap, cradling her with one hand while piloting the plane. She snuggled against him, fascinated by the colored lights blinking on the instrument panel and the rain streaking back on the windshield. "It was like a dream come true," he says...