Word: rice
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...create a (Lil) Green Patch, a digital garden that would grow on my profile page, and that any of my friends could help water, weed and plant. Sounds cute, right? Not if you've recently suffered through an overwhelming slew of requests to give a grain of rice, send good karma and rate your friends on everything including their hotness, creativity, fashion sense and intelligence. I wasn't merely skeptical - I was annoyed. But I didn't want to be a killjoy - and I love plants - so I went ahead and clicked "Accept...
...David L. Rice ’10 is really special. In a campus filled with economics and English concentrators, Rice took the road never-before-traveled and chose to concentrate in “Esoteric Studies - Mysticism and Modernism.” Haven’t heard of it? Neither had Harvard—until Rice created it.After extensively exploring both the History and Folklore and Mythology departments, Rice found that none of the established concentrations offered by the College fit his interdisciplinary interests. So, after a grueling application process, Rice became one of the 21 undergraduates pursuing degrees through...
...head off the food issue, Preval has pledged to promote egg, chicken and rice production and subsidize fertilizer costs; the World Bank has promised $10 million in emergency aid and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has agreed to send 364 tons of food, including chicken, milk and lentils. But in Haiti, even the smallest of economic fissures very quickly widen to swallow up any attempt at political equilibrium...
...with entrenched bureaucratic interests," says China expert Perry Link of Princeton University. Officials who have devoted most of their careers to defending authoritarian rule "can't stop chanting that mantra without puzzlement over what to say instead and without a bit of panic about their own rice bowls and even, almost, their own identities," Link says...
...Rice up 40% SIERRA LEONE Oil prices have made food even less affordable in a nation facing its lowest food reserves in 30 years...