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...Until now, aid agencies have been hard pressed to respond. The WFP says soaring food costs and supply-chain disruptions have dented its ability to distribute food to the hungry. The organization bought a record $667 million worth of food for donations last year; about 80% of that was spent in developing countries to buy produce from small farmers. But even farmers in poor countries are holding out for more money. Traders in Cambodia and Sri Lanka recently broke agreements to sell rice to the WFP because they "preferred to sell it where prices were higher," says WFP spokeswoman Brenda...
CLAY AIKEN artificially inseminates older record-producer pal. Just in time for Asexual Father...
With the rest of the world living and working on e-mail and the Web, an electronic health record (EHR) might seem like an obvious step. But it is, in fact, a revolution. American physicians have been notoriously slow to adopt digital record-keeping--only 14% of U.S. medical practices keep electronic records, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. When Harris began Cleveland Clinic's technology push in 1999, the hospital's 1,800 M.D.s were equally resistant to change, he says. "We had to prove that this effort was going to make their job easier...
Musically, Eno nudges Coldplay a few steps closer to transcendence not by opening the band up--though he did have the group record in Spanish churches and play with tablas--but by tying it down. Viva la Vida starts with the light pulse of a keyboard and a beep that could be a passing satellite. Everything seems to exist in its own silo until a rising whoosh comes along and the instruments merge into a huge harmonious collision. The track is called Life in Technicolor, and what differentiates it from previous Coldplay attempts to lasso the cosmos (Speed of Sound...
...McCain's second objective is to rub some of the shiny gloss off Obama and encourage voters to see the presumptive Democratic nominee for what, Republicans say, his record shows he is - a conventional liberal proposing conventionally liberal solutions to the nation's problems. "The wrong change looks not to the future but to the past for solutions that have failed before and will surely fail us again," McCain said Tuesday. "I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought in to so many failed ideas. Like others before...