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...focus of your report was very narrow, concentrating on the trade war that concerns only the 13% of worldwide banana production that is exported. The real banana war is the one that concerns the more than half a billion people in developing countries of the tropics, for whom different types of bananas are a staple food crop. In this war, people are battling the diseases and pests that are becoming more and more rampant. Average yields achieved by the small farmers who depend on this crop are one-tenth of those on the large multinational plantations. But the small farmers...
...high adventure, last week's daring rescue on the desolate seas between New Zealand and Cape Horn cribbed a page from Melville. But coming just two months after 80-knot winds mauled a regatta sailing from Sydney to Tasmania and left six dead, Autissier's narrow escape rekindled concerns about the safety of open-seas racing. The Around Alone follows a 27,000-mile, four-stop route that begins and ends in Charleston, S.C. (see map). Two of the 87 competitors in its five quadrennial races have been lost at sea, and only 42 have completed the treacherous eight-month...
...religiously obey our codes of dress and comportment, worry about social dynamics too subtle for any sociologist, as though the laws that govern our behavior here were binding in every possible universe. We become completely blind to the nature that teems around us, our eyes glued to the narrow path ahead...
...video explodes into angular movements andsurreal imagery which would be useless to describehere. But it's enough to say that the last 30seconds might be the worst revelatory materialMadonna has yet to produce. Dressed in a fiery redkimono (her breasts literally overflowing),Madonna dances in a narrow corridor. Her facialexpressions change by the second--she cries, shescreams, she feigns taking a gunshot, she smileshonestly, she smiles subversively, she pouts, shewhines, she scolds and finally, Madonna loses herhead...
...ages of each and every patron. They bend. They scratch. They optically dissect. I conclude that I'm in for some serious trouble. I consider aborting my mission, but I've come too far. Besides, I've already ascended halfway to the second floor, and below me, the narrow well is packed with eager customers. I'm trapped, caught on an escalator whose final destination is a holding cell at the Cambridge...