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...FOOD 49% Increase this year in the cost of basic staples in Africa, according to the World Food Programme (WFP), as food prices worldwide soar 90% WFP estimate for how much of their income the global poor - those earning less than 50 cents a day - already spend on food...
...Still, there are no plans to make commercial air fleets run on coconuts. In fact, biofuel producers in general have had a tough couple of years. As food prices soar worldwide, people are growing ever more worried that biofuel production can drive up the prices of staple foods. Tens of thousands of Mexicans marched in January 2006, for example, to protest the rising price of corn, used in the U.S. to make ethanol. Virgin and partners claim that their airplane fuel is, as Branson says, "completely environmentally and socially sustainable." It's not made from staple-food crops or from...
...competitiveness of the college applicant pool continues to soar, and the pressure on ambitious high school seniors to perform intensifies, administrators and students alike opine about the so-called “burn out” effect. Still recuperating from an overly stressful year, many incoming freshmen are ill-equipped to participate in university life. Princeton aims to counteract this phenomenon with its proposed “bridge year” program: an initiative enabling newly admitted students to pursue a year of international public service before delving into the pressures of campus life. Admission to the program would...
...British postwar economic policy, which held full employment as the primary objective. To curb price rises, she cut public spending at a time when rising , unemployment and the consequent increase in welfare expenditures would normally push it up. The money supply was throttled and interest rates were allowed to soar, forcing up the value of the pound and making British goods harder to sell on world markets. The strategy cooled inflation by cheapening imports and killing off demand generally, although it also threw a record number of British companies into bankruptcy and millions of workers out of jobs. Since June...
Never mind John McCain and Barack Obama. When it comes to the true winner this week the big mo really belongs to the Big O, which in this case means Ockham. Why are the wheels coming off the Hillary bus? Ockham. Why did Romney sink, Rudy fade and McCain soar? Ockham. Ockham himself, of course, would have to take our word for all this, since he's been dead since...