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Why Food Costs Are Soaring
"Fatal food riots in Haiti. Violent food-price protests in Egypt and Ivory Coast. Rice so valuable it is transported in armoured convoys. Soldiers guarding fields and warehouses. Export bans to keep local populations... 
Bush's silence won't make Israel's brutality any less counter-productive
"Bush's silence won't make Israel's brutality any less counter-productive By The Daily Star Thursday, January 24, 2008 Editorial Washington's refusal to endorse a draft United Nations Security Council statement condemning Israel's siege of Gaza effectively advocated the...
Gaza Food Shops, Gas Stations Close During Israeli Effort to End Rocket Attacks
Rather than ending rocket attacks, I'm beginning to wonder if Israel's lockdown of Gaza is more likely to create more attacks. Going without medications, bread, gas, fuel, and medical care is more likely to create...
Healthy Ways to Use the TV and Computer
As a former competitive swimmer and surfer, I learn tremendous health information from the amazing professionals at Iowa Avenue: In general, we have become a group of people who watch too much television, “Surf the Internet,” play videogames or, just “chill” with our...
Trapped miners survived on diet of coal, urine and wife jokes
At least these two men were able to save themselves. For people not in the know, mining is still one of the most precarious professions in the world. And it would help the miner's and their families if...
A steady squeeze on Tehran
"While the US has had sanctions in place against Iran since the Iranian revolution in 1979, there is a new, pointed sanctioning aimed at starving Iran of capital. The US is waging a quiet campaign on the Iranian economy by starving it of capital by pressuring global oil...
Starving Afghans sell girls of eight as brides
"Azizgul is 10 years old, from the village of Houscha in western Afghanistan. This year the wheat crop failed again following a devastating drought. Her family was hungry. So, a little before Christmas, Azizgul's mother 'sold' her to be married to a 13-year-old boy. 'I need..."Flour Power" in Turkmenistan
"MOSCOW, December 27 - The leader of Turkmenistan's United Democratic Opposition, currently based in Norway, proposed Wednesday sending a trainload of flour to Turkmenistan and carrying out a "flour" revolution in the republic. President-for-Life Saparmurat Niyazov died at...
Dining, Dolmades, and a Dancing Santa at The Greek Islands
"Our welcome at The Greek Islands wasnt particularly warm. In fact, we almost ran, fleeing for our lives, as a loud, oversized dancing santa screeched and gyrated in the lobby. We were starving and it somehow managed to put us off food, if only for a few minutes."
Vending Machine Videos at VideoSelf
"I am a sucker for a good old fashioned video store. I like to browse and wander and then walk out with far more movies than I had planned. The art of the find is half of the fun. Aside from Classic Video and maybe a handful of others, the state of video rental places in...Assembly Candidates Clash Over Immigrants
Huffman: "This country was built on immigration and I oppose the kind of extreme reactionary responses to our immigration problems that have been out there in recent months - everything from building a great wall between California and Mexico to turning the Minutemen...
The Ad Starbucks Doesn't Want You To See... Because It Sucks.
"I generally wouldn't post something so smugly self-serving as this mock Starbucks ad, but I want to point out that there's a lot of money we spend that could be used to send to starving children. But that presumes...
Miss Universe eats way too much?
"18-year-old Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza - who fainted shortly after being crowned Miss Universe - says the cause was because "it was hard to breathe and the dress was very tight and weighed a lot" and not because she had...
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