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...billion to spend, how would you save the world? Would you invest it all in alternative energy research, to fight global warming? Would you revamp America's border and port security, to fight terrorism? Would you sign Kobe Bryant, Paul Pierce and Tim Duncan for the Philadelphia 76ers? (My personal choice.) Most of us might would make such a decision based on emotions - witnessing the pain of hunger, or experiencing the fear of nuclear terorrism. But what if there were a way to calculate the exact value of global priorities, a way to figure out just how much human suffering...
...Export Re Justin Fox's "A Port That Exports": you don't wipe away an $800 billion annual trade deficit by further weakening the dollar, exporting raw materials and wishing for good luck [June 9]. It takes real change in trade policy - labor and environmental standards that will raise living standards at home and abroad, better guarantees for safe food and toy imports, and no more NAFTAs and other corporate trade deals. We need more trade - but under a very different set of rules that work for our families and our communities. Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator, Avon, Ohio...
...pull up at the warehouse in Kampala, bound for destinations around Uganda and neighboring countries. Nearly 200 porters jog around the warehouse, a steady stream of men carrying 100-lb (50 kg) bags of food on their heads. Trains and trucks arrive full from local traders and from the port city of Mombasa, Kenya, where ships bring donated food from the U.S. and other Western countries. (About two-thirds of WFP's food here is purchased locally, and one-third is donated in kind.) A local bean supplier arrives. Two women in blue lab coats take samples, check that there...
Kidane unfurls a map of the region upon which is printed rail and road routes, and the costs associated with each port and passage. The map was printed in 2006, so the printed prices are now out of date. But Kidane has bigger problems. As food and fuel prices rise, suppliers have begun defaulting on their contracts; they are either unable to provide goods at a previously agreed price because input costs have increased, or unwilling to sell food at the old rate now that others will pay more. "We used to have sufficient stock - four months, five months...
...Export Re Justin Fox's "a port that exports": you don't wipe away an $800 billion annual trade deficit by further weakening the dollar, exporting raw materials and wishing for good luck [June 9]. It takes real change in trade policy - labor and environmental standards that will raise living standards at home and abroad, better guarantees for safe food and toy imports, and no more NAFTAS and other corporate trade deals. We need more trade - but under a very different set of rules that work for our families and our communities. Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator, AVON, OHIO...