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...have contributed to the recent epidemic of colony-collapse disorder (CCD)--a mysterious phenomenon that can kill up to 90% of a hive's insects, and whose root cause is still unknown. CCD has helped cause a nationwide bee shortage; rental prices spiked to as much as $160 per hive last year...
Consequently, California's almond growers are getting stung. Dave Phippen, a partner in his family's farm in nearby Manteca, just paid $150 per hive to a Texas supplier. "If we didn't put any bees out here, I think we'd have a crop failure," he says, "and I'm not about to learn." Three years of record yields have depressed almond prices to half their peak; many growers will be lucky to break even this year. Meanwhile, a drought led Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency on Feb. 27. Some almond farmers didn't even...
...then there was South Korea's Park Chung Hee. A general who took control of the country in a 1961 coup, he ruled, often with an iron fist, for 18 years. Yet he was deeply moved by South Korea's destitution. In the early 1960s, the country's per capita income was just over $100, and the economy depended on American aid. Park, a virulent nationalist, vowed to do something about it. "I had to break, once and for all, the vicious cycle of poverty and economic stagnation," he later wrote...
Freshman proctors may see cuts in their meal plans next year, according to Dean of Freshman Thomas A. Dingman ’67. He said both cuts in the 15-meal per week allotment for proctors and a total abolishment of the proctor guest meal plan are on the table. “The proctors work hard and this is an important part of their compensation,” he said. “We want their presence in the dining hall.” While proctors emphasized the importance of interacting with students—especially in Annenberg?...
...smart or dumb, and in the coming years we need to be pragmatic and distinguish. Globalization proponents—especially those who support the phenomenon on the condition that it’s better managed—have nothing to fear from economic nationalism and state intervention per se. The economic interconnectedness of the world is not disappearing, and we will need to address most problems collectively. But this time we need to be more careful not to put all of our eggs in one basket. Many forms of economic nationalism can help with that...