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...food prices has hamstrung Beijing's response. Starting in December 2007, as public discontent about rising food prices in China grew, Beijing implemented a series of measures to reduce its grain exports. Among other things, it eliminated a 13% tax rebate on grain exports. Since a substantial portion of Chinese-grown rice and grains go to the North on commercial terms - Beijing's overall agricultural trade and aid to Pyongyang is an official state secret, so no one knows precisely how much - those policy changes hurt overall food supply in the North, and also helped continue to drive up food...
...maintaining complexity in their works comes at a cost—writers like Pinker, Hauser, and Randall lose a significant portion of potential readers who are turned off by the difficulty of the material, even if it is free of jargon...
...shelters further out but every time we try to refer someone to one out there they say, ‘I can’t make it out there,’” she said. “There’s a large portion of the homeless population that is working and for them to stay in a place that takes an hour and a half to get to work from is a very big drawback.” Whether these census results accurately express a worsening economic situation in Cambridge or are an inflow of homeless...
Until the question-and-answer portion of his appearance, Wright had been using the multi-city tour to redeem his reputation as a teachable moment. In an hour-long interview with Bill Moyers on PBS last week, Wright discussed in detail the history of the African-American religious tradition and presented a calm, erudite counterpoint to the outrageous caricature that most Americans have seen in the short clips of his sermons on YouTube. His speech to the Press Club continued in the same vein, providing context for what he sarcastically referred to as "the unknown phenomenon of the black church...
...After college, only a small portion of Harvard grads continue the service or political work of their time at school—most head to some sector of the business world, while others head to law, medical, or other graduate schools. Maybe they will send some money to help AIDS in Africa or make a phone call for Darfur, but will they care about their neighborhood meetings? Will they think about who is making and enforcing the possibly discriminatory laws in their towns and cities, or who sets up budgets for inner-city versus suburban public schools...