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Coffee prices have plummeted to all-time lows in recent months and are currently less than 50 cents per pound. But while purchasing prices have decreased, coffee companies have not lowered consumer prices—they are pocketing the difference. According to Nestor Osorio, the executive director of the International Coffee Organization, in the last decade, the major coffee companies’ revenues have doubled, while the earnings of ordinary coffee farmers have been slashed by two-thirds. This drastic fall in prices has hurt thousands of small coffee producers in Latin America and has perpetuated poverty and hardship among...
...officer was dispatched to the Pound Building to take a report of a coffee machine that had been vandalized. The officer determined that the damage was from a previous incident...
Bezjian stops talking for a second to pound on the restaurant’s front window. Azad is sitting on the ledge outside...
Poems by Ezra Pound, e. e. cummings and William Wordsworth sprang up along the banks of the Charles River yesterday as a handful of students posted verse on stakes and picked up trash to celebrate spring in Cambridge...
...Army commanders here had already noted that Baath Headquarters and the homes of party leaders were liberally stocked with 100 pound bags of rice and flour. Hoping to relieve the pressing food shortage they relaxed the no looting rules and opened these locations for a local free for all. What ensued was dozens of miniature reenactments of the storming the Bastille. Hundreds of people rushed into the buildings, emptying them of foodstuffs, furniture, farm tools and even lighting fixtures. This largess improved the lives of the fast, the young and the strong. It did nothing to help the woman with...