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...trade embargo allowed Cuba to buy U.S. food products--a privilege it began exercising in November when it purchased 30,000 tons of corn from Archer Daniels Midland. Since then Fidel Castro's government has spent $90 million in scarce hard currency on staples like rice, wheat and chicken. Now Castro and his buyers would like to sample brand-name products. This fall more than 150 American companies such as specialty pastamaker Bushel 42 and Spam producer Hormel will travel to Havana to show off Napa Valley wines, soy burgers, candy bars and even bottled water at a food...
...pollution, endangered species, water use, poverty, literacy, insecticides, garbage mountains, energy sources, women's rights, population issues, wildlife poaching, desertification and deforestation, and more. A photo of a Finnish greenhouse in winter, eerily illuminated by artificial lighting, emphasizes the often uneasy relationship beween nature and agriculture. One of U.S. wheat fields prompts a refiection on agribusiness and the controversy surrounding biotechnology. Colorful bottle racks snapped in Germany bring comment about bottled water, plastic containers and the scourge of alcoholism. A shot of the world's largest offshore wind farm, in Denmark, raises the issue of fossil-fuel alternatives. A market...
...simple visa checks to complicated special ops, is fraught with the potential for misunderstanding, confusions and, in military parlance, snafus. Take the raid on the village of Band Taimore, 80 kilometers west of Kandahar. On the night of May 24, helicopters raining machine-gun fire descended onto the village wheat fields. The mission was a success. U.S. forces killed Haji Bajet, 70, a supporter of Taliban leader Mullah Omar since 1994, who also had links with Akhter Mohammed Usmani, the probable heir to the still-fugitive Omar...
...command prices 30% higher than conventional products. According to Bartels, all the tainted feed came from a single producer in Lower Saxony, GS Agri. Nitrofen, which has been banned in the European Union since 1988 because it is believed to cause cancer, was found in 302 tons of organic wheat and 248 tons of a wheat-rye mixture. The company denies it knowingly delivered tainted feed. Government investigators, however, have alleged that the company knew of the problem as early as March 19 and continued to deliver contaminated products until May 10. Agriculture officials speculated that the wheat used...
...information overload by supplying us only with information we want. Such software is imprecise, but find a blogger, you like and you will almost always find interesting the links and posts he makes to his blog. Taken together, blogs represent a new addition to the media landscape, filtering the wheat from the chaff, elevating marginal issues to national importance and calling the mistakes of the mainstream media with unrelenting scrutiny (Ira Stoll ’94, former President of the Crimson and Managing Editor of the soon-to-be-launched New York Sun, gained prominence by publishing Smartertimes.com, a daily...