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KOFI ANNAN No Kofi break at U.N.: Sec'y-Gen. re-ups for second term with virtually unanimous support...
...Jennifer Y...
...trigger the recent animosity is the sudden bust that has followed the coffee boom, hurting almost everyone in the area. In the past year, world coffee prices have plummeted. Farmers who in 1999 could get $1.40 per kilo now earn only 40 cents. That doesn't cover production costs. Y Dien, born into the Ede tribe 40 years ago, lives in Ea Brieng, a dusty Dak Lak village. In the hope of finding a better future, he followed government orders to abandon communal living 10 years ago and began growing coffee. Within a few years he was able...
...Sync didn't get on the radio every four minutes because of talent. Record companies buy their way onto airwaves by threatening to ban stations from playing any songs under the label--that is, you can't play our other top 40 hits if song X is not played Y times every day until consumer Z couldn't get it out of his head with an electric chair. To some extent, our music tastes are chosen...
...dismayed by the slaughterhouse that Europe has become as foot-and-mouth disease ravages livestock [NOTEBOOK, March 19]. It is especially upsetting because it comes so closel y on the heels of the BSE epidemic. What would happen if these diseases spread to sub-Saharan Africa? Here, there are few slaughterhouses, but where they do exist, blood and waste run into open waterways from which the towns and villages take their drinking water. MOSES IDA-MICHAELS Lagos, Nigeria...