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...little optimism for Koizumi's chances at effecting reform and Japan's for effecting a recovery, for the first time in a long time there is hope. Hope that Japan's government can face reality and do what is plainly necessary to restore the vibrancy of the world's second-largest economy at a time when the U.S. and Europe are both in mini-funks of their own. Hope that Japan, both politically and economically, is finally ready for change...
Perhaps the key to the tension lies in the lush coffee plantations that cover more than 200,000 hectares in Dak Lak. Vietnam has become the world's second-largest exporter of coffee (behind Brazil) in the past decade, and last year it was the No. 1 exporter of the robusta bean. But there's a bleaker story behind the impressive statistics. After the war years, the communist government embarked on a major resettlement campaign: it banned collective land ownership, declared traditional tribal lands state property available for redistribution and forbade nomadic slash-and-burn farming practices, forcing hill tribes...
Suman Grewal and Katarina Käll are friends. Not best friends, the 14-year-old girls are quick to clarify, but good friends nonetheless. They attend Hjällboskolan, a school on the outskirts of Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city, where the student body covers such a spectrum of backgrounds that headmaster Lars-Peter Ekenberg estimates more than 100 nationalities are represented. Suman, whose parents are from India, was born in Sweden. Katarina's family has been in Sweden for generations, but the same is not true of most of her classmates and friends. "I hang out mostly...
...biggest leftist rebel force, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Pastrana's critics say giving the insurgents the vast swath of land in southern Colombia has failed to yield any concessions from the guerrillas. Yet he is considering ceding a smaller zone in the north to the country's second-largest rebel force, the National Liberation Army...
...getting towards the end of the season, so a lot of what we have are deformed--pumpkins with problems-- but there are plenty of good ones left," said Matt D. Bereira, an employee of Pemberton Farms, a Porter Square establishment and the second-largest pumpkin purveyor in the area...