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...rice, the foundation of Asia's diet and a potent symbol of its cultures, that is causing the most anxiety. In Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and elsewhere, the price of rice has doubled in the past year, a hike that hurts all the more because Asian families often spend half of their weekly budget on food, more than double what Western households spend. In an effort to contain spiraling domestic prices, major rice producers, including India and Vietnam, have sharply curbed exports - disrupting global supply chains, fueling more inflation, and prompting rice hoarding and panic-induced shortages. Asia...
...less. Rice is very important to us: it is what we eat. Without [it] people will die." Food aid programs are suffering, too. Valerie Guarnieri, Philippines director for the U.N. World Food Program, which feeds about 1.1 million Filipinos, says rising prices mean her organization will have to spend about 60% of its $19 million budget on food, up from 45% last year. "It's going to have a huge impact on our operation," Guarnieri says...
...sick of the generalizations about young people in the media. My friends and I don't spend our evenings causing havoc or drinking ourselves into oblivion. But the media's focus on youths who do makes some adults think we are all alike. On a bus not long ago I overheard other passengers saying young people are "no good." How can we have faith in ourselves if others don't? Rachel Scholes, Manchester, England...
...stand and wait for an open table during peak hours. Families, couples, and even police officers crowd the joint for hours—some coming for take-out, others staying for a sit-down meal. “We rely on word of mouth. We don’t spend one dime on advertising,” Reno says. “If you have great food, people will find it.”The Hoxallari brothers’ popularity and success is well-deserved. The menu, scrawled on a blackboard in pink and white chalk, is a haven...
...played out in the media, it’s that whatever the pundits may prophesize, nothing is for certain. Clinton has shown impressive resilience, even as Obama and others have begun to sound like patronizingly benevolent parents who, sighing, allow their over-enthusiastic child to spend five more minutes in the sandbox...