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...never been so insulted in my life. I do fieldwork in remote places for a lot of my life, and it helps me that I am willing to eat beans and rice for weeks and months at a time. Whether that comes from having had relatively uninteresting food in England, I’m not prepared...
...Want Fried Rice With That...
...Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a CBS News historian. His most recent book is The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America...
...region most affected - and the one that affects the most - is the Mekong River Delta in the south. Water levels in the nation's rice bowl have fallen to their lowest points in nearly 20 years, threatening the livelihoods of tens of millions of people who depend on the river basin for farming, fishing and transportation. The biggest problem, however, is not the water. It's the salt. During the dry season, when channels and tributaries run dry, seawater can creep more than 18 miles (30 km) inland. Vietnam has installed a series of sluice gates to hold back high...
...expected to break records as temperatures soar this month. Even with the small amount released, Nguyen Van Thang, director of the agriculture department in Vinh Phuc province, is not hopeful. High temperatures and evaporation are the enemy. "Even if farmers bail every single drop of water to nurture the rice," he says, he fears that a third of the rice crop in his province could be lost. (See TIME's photo-essay "China-Vietnam Border War, 30 Years Later...