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...pesticides. We're talking about farm workers and the conditions under which they produce that food. We're talking about a kind of biodiversity of the land. We're talking about a care for the land beyond the superficial. Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity...
...demand for oil and the pressure to drill offshore in Alaska. And that pressure will surely only grow as climate change causes the Arctic ice to recede. But that is precisely the lesson that must be remembered from the Exxon Valdez: that some parts of the world are too precious to be risked for a few million barrels of oil. "This place was a Shangri-la of the Arctic, a very special place," says Williams. "And today it's lost...
Investors keen to protect their precious cash have sought security in all the usual places in recent months. The U.S. dollar, the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen - each with a history as a safe haven - have all provided homes for nervous depositors' cash. But as the economies of those three countries flounder, it's time to look around, and smart investors think they've discovered a new harbor to protect them from the choppy economic seas. "The best safe haven currency," analysts at banking giant HSBC wrote in a research note this month, is Norway's. According to HSBC...
...Richardson's performances seem more precious now because they are lodged only in the memories of grateful theatergoers. They may have flashed through the minds of her family members on their death watch, but surely the more indelible impressions are ones we can't know: of daughter, wife, mother. Her loved ones don't care that Natasha Richardson was famous, and a child of fame - only that she is gone...
...picked a strange time to lay down a marker in defense of economic nationalism - and an even stranger industry in which to do it. Amid a global recession, with Beijing's state-owned companies fanning out across the globe trying to invest in or buy foreign producers of minerals, precious metals, oil and gas, China's Ministry of Commerce on March 18 formally blocked what would have been the largest acquisition by a foreign company in China, a $2.4 billion deal...