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...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...
...Despite widespread student frustration at the last-minute cancellation of the Wyclef Jean concert earlier this month, only two members of the general student body attended an open meeting to discuss the cancellation...
...critical establishment showered it with statuettes, it spawned a hit single with “Seasons of Love,” and legions of “red-state” tourists descended on the isle of Manhattan like a plague of cornfed locusts just to see it.The widespread popularity of the musical was surprising: Not many would have predicted that a gritty depiction of inner-city poverty, drug addiction, and the ravages of AIDS would have broad appeal. (Maybe it had something to do with the show’s rockin’ soundtrack and attractive cast of multi...
...SENTENCED. HUANG JINGAO, 53, Communist Party whistleblower who exposed graft in local government; to life in prison on charges of taking $715,000 in bribes; in Fuzhou, China. Huang gained widespread popular support in August 2004, when the People's Daily website posted a letter from him describing corruption in Fujian province. Huang's supporters claim the conviction is part of an effort to discredit...
...manned space probe is representative not of technological superiority but of inefficient resource allocation. The Chinese people would be better off if the country's resources were focused on finding solutions to such pressing issues as mounting pollution levels, intellectual-property violations, inefficient and outdated state-owned enterprises and widespread corruption. Abhinandan Singh Bombay...