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...will remain fairly desperate over the coming year. The harvest is better, but the number of people in need will remain high." Another problem is that little has been done to make African agriculture more resilient. Few of the drought-prone countries have grain reserves, and a lack of rain next year could easily wipe out this year's gains. "The emphasis is still on feeding the person, not helping him to produce," says Saouma...
...French policemen, the kepi was never the most practical of headgear. It had a tendency to fall off when the wearer chased a fleeing criminal, and it did not keep the rain off the neck. Still, an era ended earlier this month when the kepi began disappearing from the heads of police in Paris and elsewhere. The round, pillbox cap is being replaced by a flat-topped, short-beaked hat of the style worn by U.S. police...
...Made in China" is synonymous with cheap products, but the country is exporting something far costlier: environmental degradation. Already, crops in Japan and South Korea are withering from Chinese acid rain, which poisons a quarter of the Chinese landmass. Toxic dust from Chinese sandstorms, the result of grassland erosion and logging that have helped turn 27% of the country into desert, travels as far as U.S. shores, obscuring visibility in national parks and raising mercury levels in fish. Although the U.S. still produces far more greenhouse gases, particularly in per capita terms, China is the world's second largest polluter...
...only to the U.S.'s--more than quadrupled from 1996 to 2003, according to the World Wildlife Fund. China's appetite for resources extends even to the Amazon. By the middle of next year, Brazil and Peru hope to have built a transcontinental highway that cuts straight through virgin rain forest. Why? In part, to export to China soybeans grown on recently cleared jungle land. China's dirty secret is out, and the rest of the world has little choice but to share it. --By Hannah Beech/Beijing
...critical home set versus defending Ivy champs Cornell loomed to protect Harvard’s tie in the loss column with first-place Princeton. But in the wind and rain at Soldiers Field, the Crimson lost both games and its chance at the division title...