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...cost of staple foods has risen some 50% in Haiti since last year, a crushing trend in a country where three-quarters of the population lives on less than $2 a day. Only Somalia and Afghanistan have a higher per capita daily deficit in calorie intake than Haiti does. (The figure in Haiti is 460 calories below the United Nations' daily minimum of 2,100.) The U.N.'s World Food Program says it has received only 13% of the $96 million it needs to help Haiti's 10 million people in 2008 - barely enough to support its operations there through...
It’s a good time to be a farmer. Buoyed by rising demand for biofuels and the growth of the middle class in developing nations like China and India, corn prices have risen to $5.53 per bushel, an increase of more than 100 percent over 2006 levels. These gains, along with similar surges in the prices of wheat and rice, are poised to spur American agriculture to a record $92.3 billion in revenue this year. To top it all off, American farmers are still receiving $13 billion every year in subsidies from the federal government.If that seems strange...
...waning years of the previous papacy. Don Stanislaw Dziwisz, John Paul's longtime personal secretary, exerted great authority over the direction of the papacy and access to the Holy Father. After John Paul's death Dziwisz took over his boss's old job as Archbishop of Krakow, and has risen to the rank of Cardinal...
...harm's way have suffered the greatest loss. Canada has seen 81 fatalities in Afghanistan, almost all of them in the past two years. Based on the size of Canada's contingent, that is a higher rate than the U.S. has sustained in Iraq. U.S. casualties in Afghanistan have risen, too. From 2002 to 2004, the Taliban killed one U.S. soldier a week; last year the rate was twice that...
...where the government has failed to provide support, teachers have risen to the challenge. Two history teachers made a virtue out of necessity and, with the help of their students, transformed an empty classroom into a museum of Romanian peasant culture. One wall is covered with colorful blankets and rugs. There is antique furniture and other items that can be found in a traditional Romanian peasant's household. Photographs and historical documents on another wall tell the history of the local community...