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...distribution program that helps feed India's poor. That program bought 20.6 million metric tons last year. This year, procurement, from both domestic growers and importers, is expected to rise to 25 million metric tons, according to Manoj Pandey, a senior government official. "It's not a question of low production or low procurement," says Pandey...
...that the artists will be better off if they intend to make a living from drawing alone. It's cheaper for small printers in Cambodia to publish a reprint of an older comic than to buy rights to a new story, and literacy rates in the country remain low. "People have the decks stacked against them a little bit," admits Weeks. For Séra, however, money has never been the point - facing the difficult realities of the nation's present is, and that goes hand in hand with facing the atrocities of the past. "I try to give some...
LAMONTSTER: With iPod headphones plugged into their laptops, Lamonsters are almost always listening to sweet jams. Usually, these sweet jams were popular about two months ago, just before midterms, when these students first entered Lamont. Currently listening to: “Get Low,” by Flo Rida. Will soon be listening to: “4 Minutes to Save the World,” by Madonna (from now until the end of finals...
...specialists. In one study, only 37 percent of those intending to go into family care ended up in family practice. Those who defected were more likely than those rejecting other specialties to quote a lack of prestige, anxiety over mastering a wide breadth of knowledge, and paradoxically, a low academic content as the reasons for their change in focus...
Lesson Four: Al Qaeda may seize the opportunity to make dramatic gestures. The Sunni insurgency has genuinely been put back on its heels in the face of the surge, and there may be a temptation among insurgent strategists to lie low and regroup in their remaining havens around Iraq. But any insurgent pause now may mean lost chances to attack American troops and to score political points just as the disposition of U.S. military strength is up for debate...