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...children to school,” said Meskele, who is the founder of Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union. Instead of going through collectors, distributors and exporters, Oromia has allowed farmers to bypass the middle man, thus raising their profits. Sylvia Arevalo, another farmer at the event, described her poverty-stricken community of banana-growers in Ecuador. She belongs to a 350-member farmers’ cooperative, which exported products directly to consumers. “This banana money makes it possible for the producers to continue to be farmers and not disappear,” Arevalo said through a translator...
Pictures of drought-stricken land, higher temperatures, water restrictions and dying suburban gardens have become part of the voter's psyche. Even a global-warming skeptic like Howard can read the shift in the electorate's fears; he and his intimates have adjusted their thinking and public words. With an election expected next year, Howard's team are devising an environmental platform based on water policy, rural land care and alternative energy sources. Howard has traveled widely in the bush. Farmers are one of his touchstones, and more measures to help them are expected this week. But when Howard talks...
...were sure it was more than we could handle. But somehow we managed to do it. The example I give is Christopher Reeve, who had his perfect life snatched away from him in moments, and somehow was able to overcome the bitterness that might have stricken a lot of people. Had you asked him a week before, "How do you think you would handle it if you suddenly woke up and were quadriplegic?" I suspect he'd say, "I'd be devastated." Yet he was able to go on bravely for another nine years. And I see this...
...lost in the forests forever." But in Tibet, where activism is viewed with suspicion by the Chinese government, his dreams of becoming a conservationist would not easily be realized. His early work documenting the negative environmental impact of a World Bank-funded project to relocate farmers from their drought-stricken homes to rich wetlands in the Tibetan Autonomous Region earned him the Chinese government's ire when the bank pulled out in 1999. Tsering Dorje was detained, forced to sign a confession that he was working against his country and warned away from further activism. In the years that followed...
...happens, my prejudices or insights are seconded by The Queen. Charles (played with a dense delicacy by Alex Jennings) is the one member of the family immediately and deeply stricken by the news of Diana's death. He grieves for her, as his parents first refuse his request to go to Paris to identify the body then suggest he get there not on the royal jet but by connecting commercial flights. When the others attack Diana's skills as a mother, Charles makes pointed remarks about the love she showered on her two sons, unlike his own mother...