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...longer just threatening Australia's $30 billion agricultural economy, the drought is contributing to soaring world food prices - rice, wheat and corn prices have more than doubled in the past two years - which in recent weeks have triggered panic buying, hoarding and a string of riots across the developing world. "International agencies are belatedly recognizing," says Julian Cribb, a professor of science communication at Sydney's University of Technology, "that the global food crisis is much closer than the climate change crisis or even the next oil crisis...
...string of prerace mishaps--including being badly spooked by a band playing the national anthem--didn't stop Seattle Slew from taking the Derby. He became the first undefeated Triple Crown winner...
...Raul Castro has permitted his citizens to own them). And when recent surveys show that even a majority of Miami Cubans, of all people, favor relaxing the restrictions - in an FIU poll 55% backed unlimited travel to Cuba - it's probably time for U.S. politicians to drop the one-string embargo banjo and pick up a new instrument for effecting change across the Florida Straits...
...Some find a grim significance in the fact that it occurred at the boundary of China and Tibet--where military intervention in demonstrations against Beijing's rule resulted in bloodshed in March, sparking global protests that sullied China's image ahead of the Olympic Games. Others point to a string of recent calamities--a destructive snowstorm, an outbreak of disease that killed dozens of children, a fatal train accident--as evidence of some kind of heavenly displeasure...
...group of girls to know and to play with, and I’m going to miss it.”PRINCETON 5, HARVARD 1In the second game, the Crimson could not come back after the Tigers rallied for four runs in the first inning. With two outs, a string of hits and walks—including a three-run longball to left—gave Princeton the lead from the get-go.Harvard settled down after the first, and the Tigers managed to put just four baserunners on over the following five frames. A leadoff hit in the seventh came around...