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...recipes that are a little more complicated or exotic without spooking somebody? You know what? The biggest difference isn't exotic stuff. It's the old-school grandmother cooking. People 10 years ago often had really minimal skills; there had been two generations of double-income earners not working from the home who where like, O.K., I'm going to try to cook a piece of boneless skinless chicken breasts, and I don't want to know from nothing else! You know? Now you can do the stuff that would take them all day on a Sunday, the more complicated...
...history, but it's coming to us at a very high, unseen cost. And I think we're just beginning to understand that. Ultimately, the most shocking things in this film were when Barb Kowalcyk told me that meat producers knew where the meat that killed her 2-year-old son came from and it sat on the shelves two weeks after he died - and the government did not have the power to recall it. Another was when I went to the hearing on whether we should label cloned [genetically modified] meats. I didn't even know there was such...
...decent shelter and sanitation facilities. But its backers say the program bears the seeds not only of a more effective rebuilding effort in Haiti, but of a new development strategy that's less about top-down, welfare-style aid and more about economy-stimulating engagement of the grassroots. "The old, more paternalistic way of doing charity was easier," says Brazilian aid worker Eliana Nicolini, a UNDP cash-for-work coordinator in Haiti who first helped bring the plan to Port-au-Prince a couple years ago. "This is different - I really believe it has longer-lasting development effects because...
...more than the $25.5 million the UNDP has so far garnered in donations and pledges for the project, which is why the agency has been bringing celebrities like Angelina Jolie and recent American Idol winners to Haiti to promote it. Participants, who have to be at least 18 years old, work six-hour shifts each day for two weeks; only one worker per family is allowed and that family has to have been affected in some way (a death, a destroyed house) by the earthquake. (See pictures of UNICEF's child registry in Haiti...
...Gates is trying hard to shake the Europeans out of a sense that a robust military capability is a relic of the 20th century. If they continue on their current path, after all, European NATO members may actually succeed in doing what Moscow never could: render the 61-year-old alliance a paper tiger...