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...Alive posters from old movies. But so many of our pundits and politicians were talking about the war on terror as going back to our days of fighting the Indians on the Great Plains. The Cabinet was dining on what they billed as a Wild Western menu of buffalo meat. The press was full of trend stories about how this was going to bring back "John Wayne masculinity." The TV programmers were rerunning John Wayne westerns. Karl Rove asked Hollywood to produce a film paying tribute to post-9/11 American heroism and what came back was a film called...
...finish a week ago didn’t come without a bit of last-second drama. Kovacs stumbled out of the gate and fell behind Yale’s Thomas Barrows early, finishing as low as 12th in once race, but he bounced back in the meat of the regatta, finishing outside the top four only two times in the event’s 12 races...
...month, and lately, the couple's monthly pensions haven't been enough. The price of the peanut oil that Xu cooks with has doubled in the past few months, and soaring costs for other staples have forced them to cut back on milk and to substitute bean curd for meat. They're not starving. But they're scared. "Prices are going up so much and so quickly," Xu complains...
...government and some economists blamed the jump almost entirely on sharply higher prices for meat and poultry, which surged 49% since mid-2006. Beijing maintains that the rise in food costs, which make up more than one-third of China's consumer price index, was largely the result of more expensive livestock feed and a one-off event: an outbreak of a porcine disease that killed 70,000 pigs and prompted the mid-September release of 30,000 tons of pork (about a quarter of the amount of pork China consumes in a day) from a national reserve to help...
...long as people don't revolt. At the end of September, China's central bank predicted consumer price rises would accelerate from an average 4.6% rate this year to 5% in 2008. Higher food costs continue to be a worry. As Chinese grow richer, they are eating more meat, which pushes up demand for grains such as soy and corn, says Jing Ulrich, head of China equities at JP Morgan in Hong Kong. Although Ulrich expects food prices to stabilize by year's end as the pork supply recovers, she says inflationary pressures resulting from rising meat consumption, the country...