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...subsidies to wealthy farmers, which won't be enough to impact the average grocery store bill. Americans are now facing the steepest increases in food prices in nearly two decades - in 2007, prices rose 4%, the sharpest single-year increase since 1990 - while prices for crops like wheat and rice are at record highs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Farm Bill Lower Grocery Tabs? | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

While snacking on hot cross buns, rice pudding, and challah earlier this month, over 70 students gathered around an arch of colorful poster boards carefully arranged at the back of Lowell dining hall. Each tasty sample of holiday food was accompanied by a conversation about the traditions of one of the many religions represented on campus.The Harvard College Interfaith Council organized this culinary evening as the Kickoff Festival for its celebration of the first-ever National Interfaith Awareness Week during mid-April. By collaborating with 12 religious groups and the Harvard Secular Society, the Council works to foster interfaith dialogue...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Interfaith Interactions | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...sources stress they have as yet heard nothing concrete from the FARC. Meanwhile, the American hostages follow a dismal routine, say Pinchao and other recently released hostages. They are forced into days-long marches to new camps when the FARC fears the military is close. Their rice-and-bean meals are varied only when they're near a river or an area where wild pigs roam, and they often fight illnesses like hepatitis with only poorly trained nurses to treat them. (The FARC refuses visits by Red Cross medical teams.) Pinchao, 37, says Stansell taught him how to swim during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Forgotten Hostages | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...director of HRiNK. “What we want to do is take attention away from the political aspect and raise awareness of the strife individuals are going through,” Baek said. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the group passed out North Korean fact sheets and Rice Krispies treats outside of the Science Center. Attached to each treat was a note telling the recipient that the average North Korean has a daily ration of 300 grams of food, the equivalent of a Rice Krispies treat for each meal. Tomorrow, the group will screen a documentary about North Koreans illegally...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: N. Korean Tells His Escape Story | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...major reason for the silence, say former Administration officials and Asian diplomats, was an ongoing struggle over the Bush Administration's North Korea policy. The State Department, led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, the U.S. point man for North Korea talks, still believe the only sensible path is the one they have been on for the last two years: trying, oh so patiently, to come to a deal with Kim that will at least eliminate his regime's plutonium program and the weapons it produced. Everything else, they believe, is secondary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea's Syrian Connection | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

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