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...policy, didn't live through Maoist poverty and upheaval. They are pampered, impatient and demanding. They consider exponential growth as a basic benchmark of life, and access to information to be a civil right. China's rich are powerful opponents of further reform and opening. They made money the local way and are determined to block foreign competition so this can continue...
...need to vote with our forks as consumers. We also need to make our agricultural policies support the kind of food system we want--support farmers who are growing organic food or local food, not just big corn and soy farmers...
...question--to eat healthy and to eat with some sense of environmental responsibility costs more than to eat badly. If you have any space at all, a $70 home garden can yield $600 of produce. That is the cheapest, most local, most nutritious produce you can have...
Friction often stems from parents giving their children different information about how they're doing. Mom may put on a good show for the out-of-towner, who then discounts what the local sibling says. Annie Groeber, 43, a freelance media producer, used to pop up from Washington to see her mother, who would make light of her many health problems. So until Groeber moved to Baltimore to help out more, she had trouble believing what her sister said about their mother's deteriorating condition or the personality changes caused by her medications. "Tracey would say, 'You have no idea...
Joffe joined Cravath in 1967, but a few months into his time as an associate, he went to work in Malawi’s Ministry of Justice. There he spent two years helping rewrite the country’s laws and procedures for local courts...