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...wind farms five miles offshore, a remote location that can take advantage of brisk sea breezes while keeping the sometimes noisy mills out of human earshot. Similar wind farms built in a place like North Dakota could generate not just energy but profits. Farmers earn $50 an acre from wheat, but could reap $2,000 an acre selling wind-generated power...
...green revolution introduced superior plant breeds and increased rice and wheat farmers' productivity. It has been widely credited with having prevented famine in Swaminathan's home country...
During a month at Mazlak camp, in the empty desert outside Herat, Hawaneen and his family received 15 lbs. of wheat and a handful of moldy dates. When his son first became ill with pneumonia, Hawaneen waited from dawn to dusk outside the camp clinic, along with hundreds of others stricken with tuberculosis, measles and bronchitis. At last it was Hawaneen's turn. "All they gave me for my son was this," he said helplessly, clutching a plastic strip that once held 12 aspirins...
Remember the Old Economy? Things worked then. Steel didn't break. Refrigerators cooled food. A pound of wheat was a pound of wheat, and people could grind it into flour and eat it. A hamburger consisted of two buns and a patty of ground meat, and a cheeseburger was a hamburger plus cheese...
...third of an inch thick; and if one carried the steel outside one's "area," it would cost six times as much. Refrigerators would chill eggs and butter for only three or four hours before they "crashed," entailing a call to an 800 number. A pound of wheat would be a pound of wheat*--meaning that it would neither weigh a pound nor be composed of grain without the purchase of a 12-month contract. A hamburger would be defined as two buns around a paper coupon promising the delivery of a meat patty as soon as meat-patty technology...