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...cooking rice porridge to try and use less. Rice is very important to us: it is what we eat. Without [it] people will die." Food aid programs are suffering, too. Valerie Guarnieri, Philippines director for the U.N. World Food Program, which feeds about 1.1 million Filipinos, says rising prices mean her organization will have to spend about 60% of its $19 million budget on food, up from 45% last year. "It's going to have a huge impact on our operation," Guarnieri says...
...world's most vulnerable populations. "A lot of people don't realize that Africa's rice depends on Asia's surpluses," says the Rice Institute's Zeigler. In other words, Asia's grain is Africa's loss. With Asian nations scrambling to protect their own supplies, that could mean a much hungrier world...
European watchmakers are competing for lucrative slices of the China market, but not everyone in the world's fastest-growing economy is interested in a Chopard or a Blancpain. One small clique of collectors prefers to concentrate on homegrown brands - and they don't mean upscale makes. Their obsession is for mechanical watches produced by communist factories from the 1950s to the 1970s, and stems from a mixture of historical curiosity and opportunism. It's an area of collecting that has been barely explored, with no price barriers to entry...
...through the canopy. But there's been no hint even of romance, let alone the bonobo orgies I've read about. Patrick Mehlman, a conservationist and primatologist who has spent his life around African apes, senses my disappointment. "Just because you fly all this way," he says, "doesn't mean you're going...
...campaign manager David Plouffe calls a "nightmare scenario," in which both campaigns would haggle with the Democratic National Committee over speakers, delegate rules, the party platform and the critical issue of when to schedule roll-call votes. For a party with a reputation for disorganization, divergent agendas could mean chaos. Instead of being able to script the convention as a four-day coronation of their presidential nominee--the norm in recent elections--Democrats would be putting on a weeklong advertisement of their disunity...