Word: wheats
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Presently, sectarian violence is the biggest threat to stability in Iraq. Earlier this week, 70 Iraqi citizens were killed when a truck loaded with wheat exploded in a crowd of Shiites looking for work. A team of Iraqi and American epidemiologists estimates the “excess death toll” in Iraq at around 655,000 since March 2003. Because continuing to send troops to Iraq has not proven to have a stabilizing effect on the region, the Baker commission’s suggestions should be carefully considered...
...films eligible for nomination. After all, we see movies for a living; they just make them. They need an early line, a cheat sheet, voices of presumed expertise steering them toward certain films and, just as important, away from lots of others. Critics, at award time, are the wheat-chaff separators...
...long fermentation process. The resulting dough is then steamed without any butter or oil to become a squishy pancake with the tang of San Francisco sourdough and a buckwheat-like flavor from a special grain called “maskal teff,” used instead of wheat flour. I had done a little research before setting out and arrived expecting the finger-food and flatbread, but still I was thrown off by the table-sized basket we were led to. The staff at Asmara had clearly seen my look of confusion before, because the menu explained everything: the injera...
...talking points about fairness in the workplace, better health and education services and a cleaner environment. A foreign affairs and trade specialist, Rudd is well traveled and speaks Mandarin. Elected to Parliament in 1998, Rudd came to prominence this past year through his pursuit of the Howard government over wheat exporter AWB's abuse of the Iraqi oil-for-food program. Rudd is a Christian who is comfortable speaking about his faith. His early life was thrown into turmoil when his farmer father was killed in a car accident before Rudd reached his teens. He went to university in Canberra...
...dominated by illicit opium production, which by some estimates accounts for as much as one-third of GDP. About 40% of Afghans are unemployed. And last month, the World Food Program warned that millions of rural Afghans might starve this winter because a prolonged drought has devastated the wheat harvest...