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...Needed: Fuel for Humans Having read "A Furious Hunger," I sadly experienced déjà vu [March 17]. As a food technologist, I daily receive disquieting information on availability and rising prices. Several companies I deal with are becoming desperate as stocks of flax and corn, to name but two examples, are virtually extinct. You were certainly correct to cite biofuels and bad harvests as the key reasons for this scarcity. Several of our suppliers readily admit they have sold their stocks of sugar, corn and rapeseed to biofuel manufacturers simply because they can make a lot more money...
...answers range from "No" to "We don't know." "[Given] that there is so much that is unknown at the moment, I would have to say we are at greater risk," Keith Rhodes, chief technologist with the General Accountability Office (GAO), told Congress, "because, as the number [of bio-labs] increases, the risk increases. And it's not just the increase in material, it's the increase in laboratories that have less experience than others...
...even jaded money managers and analysts. Disney's stock has soared 42% since Iger took over, and its profits in the first half of fiscal 2007 jumped 79% over last year, to $2.63 billion. More important, "He has succeeded in persuading the Street to think of him as a technologist," says David Miller, media-and- entertainment analyst at SMH Capital. That's a new and crucial part of the CEO job description at Disney, where creativity and dealmaking have traditionally been more essential...
...demeanor and wool sweater also serve the scene, as does his stellar résumé, which lists degrees from M.I.T. and jobs with NASA and the Defense Department. But signs of accomplishment--the Emmy on his desk, framed patents and a photo with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger--bespeak a former government technologist who isn't afraid to show off a little...
...Every technologist, says Alvelda, wonders what impact he will have on the world. "You start to realize that opportunity to leverage the economics of the First World to build a business and use it to change life in the Second and Third World," he says. "How many people have a chance to do that?" At least 219, and counting...