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Grain shortages have increased the price of flour; consequently, bread prices have risen 7.5% since January. The steep price of feed grains for livestock has also contributed to an appreciable increase in meat prices. At the same time, ranchers have stepped up their slaughter of dairy cattle-to reduce feed expenses, take advantage of high meat prices-with the result that milk prices are up 7.9% this year...
...cavers do have other reasons for their secrecy. Too often when a cave's reputation spreads, its owners turn it into a commercial attraction and close it to further exploration. Or farmers dynamite their caves shut if careless cavers leave carbide lying around the cave's entrance, poisoning livestock. Those who know the Garden of Eden Cave say that this would happen to it as soon as people began to visit...
Birthday gifts came streaming into the dusty, desertside capital of Gaberones. From Britain, $40 million for famine relief and economic development. From the United Nations, $15 million for livestock feeding, community development and an anti-tsetse-fly campaign. From the U.S., a $70,000 twin-engined Beechcraft Baron light executive plane. And from the vast Kalahari Desert just outside of town, a blinding sandstorm that nearly ripped Botswana's new black-white-and-blue flag from the pole before it could be tied down. As fireworks illuminated the swirling sand clouds overhead, a tribal witch doctor swept back...
...science students at San Marcos last year, only 22 took their degrees-at a cost per graduate of $14,000. Too often, those who do graduate are not the kind of specialists that underdeveloped nations need most. Although Argentina's major industry is agriculture and livestock, the University of Buenos Aires produces a mere 250 agriculture or veterinary specialists per year, compared with 1,100 students who choose a more prestigious career...
Through Government-subsidized production controls and giveaways to friendly but needy foreign countries, the U.S.'s once-mountainous grain surplus has dwindled to a point below what is needed as a strategic reserve; as one result, domestic wheat prices are up 20% since May. Livestock prices stand at a 14-year high. Because meat is so profitable, many dairymen have decided to slaughter their cows instead of milk them; the 14.6 million dairy cows in the U.S. today represent the fewest since 1900. That in itself has created a new shortage-which at least partly explains the increase...