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...in�Africa. Just ask Bafing Diarra, 47, who owns slightly less than 25 acres near the village of Korokoro in Mali in West Africa. His headaches are endless: low- yielding seeds from Mali's government-controlled cotton company, boll weevils that this season resisted five applications of pesticides; capricious weather; a lack of equipment, which forces him to pick his cotton by hand in the scorching heat; even monkeys, which occasionally get into the fields and pry open the bolls to get at the sweet water trapped inside...
...Africa. Just ask Bafing Diarra, 47, who owns slightly less than 25 acres near the village of Korokoro in Mali in West Africa. His headaches are endless: low- yielding seeds from Mali's government-controlled cotton company, boll weevils that this season resisted five applications of pesticides; capricious weather; a lack of equipment, which forces him to pick his cotton by hand in the scorching heat; even monkeys, which occasionally get into the fields and pry open the bolls to get at the sweet water trapped inside...
...Japanese and South Koreans also worry about becoming dependent on imported rice. The concern is especially acute in South Korea, which suffered from widespread hunger as recently as the 1960s. In 1993, Japan was forced to import large quantities of rice when its harvest failed due to unusually cold weather. But many Japanese refused to buy it because of reports of dead rats in sacks of foreign rice and televised taste tests in which participants deemed the strange grains inedible. So shoppers stood in long lines or turned to the black market to buy local rice at outrageous prices instead...
...state recently where not very many students come to Harvard,” Fitzsimmons says. “A number of people said, ‘Why should we even think about going up to that ridiculous cold weather with a bunch of elitist northern Yankees?’ And so forth and so on. ‘Why shouldn’t I just go to state university which is terrific and everybody has a wonderful time...
...merely nominal. Last year’s Springfest Afterparty and the Havana on the Harbor cruise are two recent examples of ineffectual planning by the students of the CLC. Both of these failures stemmed from a combination of lack of input from the student body and uncontrollable bad weather. The organization of the SEC offers few clues to how its events would be more successful. Direct elections to the SEC might improve the enthusiasm of committee members by ensuring they all actually want to plan events. But the SEC will not be in any better a position to achieve...