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...Homeland Security Department. "This is like war mobilization for us," says special Food Security Minister José Graziano da Silva, an economist and longtime Lula adviser. In addition to food relief, the ministry is charged with attacking the causes of Brazil's malnutrition, such as laughable rural infrastructure and the nation's paltry $60 monthly minimum wage, which Lula hopes to double by the end of his term in 2006. More important, Graziano and ministers like Benedita da Silva say they're kiboshing the waste, inefficiency and indifference of Brazil's social-welfare programs, converting them from political patronage rackets...
...small and even heroic ways, officials across the country have thrown themselves into roles as the country's new defenders. Officials in rural Hardin County, Ohio, purchased a portable decontamination shower and are planning to simulate a terrorist-sponsored train derailment to test the danger posed to the area's local chemical facilities. In Iowa, state officials have held eight-hour seminars with farmers on the possibility of "agroterrorist" attacks on the food supply...
...religious works, including two big paintings by Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer that he saw in the Dordrecht Museum, Christus Consolator and The Agony in the Garden. The latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes and rural scenes just as uplifting - first Ruisdael and Constable, and then his contemporaries from the Hague School, Josef Israëls, Matthijs Maris, Anton Mauve and their Barbizon-School cousins Charles-François Daubigny and Millet. This makes for a wonderful triple play here, cloud-filled skies sweeping over broad...
...years. "I'm just trying to reach the people," Mapfumo says. The roars that shake the packed hall suggest he's succeeding. That same week, on the opposite side of the country, Oliver Mtukudzi - Mapfumo's former bandmate and the other giant of Zimbabwean music - is in Binga, a rural area on Zimbabwe's western edge. Binga is as hot, parched and brown as Mutare is cool, well-watered and green. Tuku, as he's known to friends and fans, settles down on a dusty wooden bench with his guitar. All day, he has been clapping his big hands, flapping...
...fueled the rise of Mavi, and by 1996 it had overtaken Levi's as the country's No. 1-selling jeans brand. That same year, Akarlilar invested $20 million to set up Europe's largest integrated fashion jeans factory in Cerkezkoy, a tiny hamlet in rural western Turkey, 120 km from Istanbul. More than 1,500 people work here at the company's mammoth factory in the middle of rolling farmland, churning out up to 11 million pairs of jeans a year, more than half of which are for well-known brands like Calvin Klein, Guess, Esprit and Mustang...