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...Student Advisory Council member Peter G. Bacon ’11. “But quality should be our primary goal when dealing with HUSDS.” Though sustainability and food quality are not mutually exclusive, Bacon said, HUDS may have to sacrifice pursuing sustainability in order to maintain food quality. The committee discussed student perspective on sustainability as a long-term issue. But Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, one of the three student representatives at the meeting, said institutional memory can be difficult to establish given the typical four-year college career...
...Race for Rice Some governments are not taking a long-term view, however. In a game of beggar-thy-neighbor, they're trying to keep inflation at home from soaring out of control. Vietnam recently imposed export quotas to maintain domestic supplies, which reduces the international inventory and drives up the global price. China has also imposed strict limits on exports to restrain domestic prices. In the Philippines, meanwhile, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo personally negotiated a guarantee of 1.5 million metric tons of rice from Vietnam...
...tide may turn in favor of the allies: after growing slightly for seven years, the North Korean economy contracted by 1.1% in 2006, according to South Korea's central bank, and a bad harvest has worsened chronic food shortages, say North Korea watchers. Lee has pledged to maintain humanitarian aid to the North. But if Pyongyang's plight continues to worsen, Lee's tourniquet on other potentially vital economic arteries could force the Kim regime to heel...
Tahsin al-Shiekhly, spokesman for the Baghdad Security Plan, which oversees police and military checkpoints in the capital, said the most important thing in the American elections is not who the President will be, but whether he or she will maintain the troop support in Iraq if the Iraqi government requests it. "The U.S. has a commitment to the people of Iraq. They liberated them and they have come to rebuild the country. Whoever the next President is - even Hillary Clinton - I don't think they will withdraw troops from Iraq," he said. But so long as that concern...
...What keeps you going at difficult moments like these? I suppose it's the inspiration [I draw from] the resilience of the people. They maintain faith with our leadership, and with the idea that our goal can be achieved...