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...hundreds of millions of increasingly prosperous people are eating more. Though the demand in these countries is for less rice and more meat and fish, this increases the consumption of grain in the form of feed: it takes 7-15 kg of grain to produce a kilogram of meat. Record-high oil prices and escalating freight costs, as well as drought in the Middle East, have all contributed to world wheat stocks, for example, plunging to their lowest level in 30 years...
Along the way, Kennedy has steadily exchanged his heavy burden of what-ifs for an impressive record of legislative accomplishments. He has lived long enough to hear the growing consensus that his 45-year career would rank among the most consequential in the history of the U.S. Senate...
...chestnut superhorse remains the yardstick by which all others are measured. He still holds the records for the Derby and the Belmont, and a clock controversy may have robbed him of a Preakness record...
...will raise production when the market justifies it.' ALI AL-NAIMI, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, after the country rebuffed President George W. Bush's request that OPEC nations immediately pump more oil to decrease record prices...
...many people have seen or touched their medical record? That really shouldn't be the case in this information age.' MARISSA MAYER, Google executive, on the launch of a free service that allows customers to track their medical history online...