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...Zeigler blames a lack of investment in agriculture. In much of Asia, rice farming remains small-scale and inefficient. In Thailand, for example, average yields are less than half that of either Chinese or U.S. farms. At the same time, Asia's rapid urbanization has gobbled up fecund farmland. In Vietnam's Bac Ninh province, 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Hanoi, shimmering emerald paddy fields are now bisected by a four-lane highway. Not far from where rice farmer Nguyen Thi Lan stands weeding her fields in calf-deep muck, a Singapore-Vietnamese joint venture will soon build...
...High Staples Food prices have surged in the past few years, and in recent months inflation has sparked riots, hoarding and economic sanctions around the globe. A look at the rapid increases of some local necessities in the past year...
...Angels in America” author Tony Kushner opened the Tanner Lectures on Human Values last night with a rapid-fire monologue by a character named Tony Kushner—a neurotic writer completely unprepared to give a speech “at—you should pardon the expression—Harvard.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s apologies drew laughter at every line from a Lowell Lecture Hall audience of more than 250, including University President Drew G. Faust. It was a slyly appropriate opening to a speech entitled “Fiction...
Neither the FBI nor the Transportation Security Administration specifies exactly what that suspicious behavior consisted of. But the science of reading "micro-expressions" is becoming more sophisticated. "In micro-expression, something is on and off the face in about 1/30th of a second. So it's very, very rapid," says Dr. Maureen O'Sullivan, who trains U.S. airport security officers in recognizing them in order to spot potential troublemakers, including terrorists. Since the summer of 2007, O'Sullivan, working with micro-expression detection pioneer Paul Ekman, has helped train thousands of airport security officers in techniques to detect the kind...
...Georgia and Ukraine also saw their hopes of a rapid road to NATO dashed. Both countries had sought entry into the Alliance's Membership Action Plan (MAP), the gateway to NATO membership. Instead they too will have to wait. NATO foreign ministers meeting next December will review their applications, but few observers expect that to yield much progress towards MAP even though ministers theoretically have the power to give the green light. The blockage, of course, stems from Russia, which has forcefully opposed its neighbors' NATO ambitions, however resolutely they've been supported by U.S. President George Bush. "I have...