Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million people will soon be both willing and able to earn their own way. That is, of course, a tall order. Even at the peak of the fighting between the French and the Viet Minh during the "first Indochina war," South Viet Nam derived some income from exports of rice and rubber. But now many of the plantations are in ruins, rice is imported from the U.S., and the leading export is scrap metal left behind by the departing U.S. military. Exports bring in a bare $16 million a year, while imports are running at an annual rate...
Nonetheless, many U.S. environmentalists remain skeptical about the Green Revolution precisely because it depends so heavily on agricultural chemicals. Those chemicals boost harvests, but they also have unpredictable side effects that may not show up for years. In recent Philippine experience with new strains of rice, for example, farmers were delighted to reap bumper crops. But so many chemicals were needed that the fish in the paddylields and nearby waterways died. Result: more rice but less protein in the local diet-a net loss in food values...
...seems sad that Jesus Christ Superstar has become garbed in controversy. The question of whether Christ was God is nothing new. Rice and Webber's version emphasizes the humanity rather than the divinity. In fact, the very "putting aside" of the idea of God for a while enabled me, for the first time, to really see and understand Jesus as man. He had doubts and fears, but did make the ultimate sacrifice. Through this production I came to know him more as man, and this experience enabled me to love him more...
...would have it seem as if the Broadway production were done solely for the entertainment of fag New Yorkers and the conceit and pocketbook of Tom O'Horgan. Whether they intended to do so, Rice and Webber have composed a work that speaks to modern Christians. Despite the silver shorts and $20,000 robe...
...days in the People's Republic, visiting rural communes and vacation resorts as well as seven major cities, including Shanghai and Peking, where he met Premier Chou Enlai. Terrill's determination to see as much as he could-"the actual world of sweat and cicadas, boiled rice and bicycles" -led to what he calls "a friendly tension between the authorities and myself." Because he speaks Chinese, they were worried that he spent too much time mingling with the people. Politely but firmly, they tried to keep him from browsing in local bookstores, visiting abandoned churches or even...