I got a phone call from an exasperated spouse yesterday afternoon. “We’re waiting in line to recycle. It’s a total mess!” she complained. Turns out she wasn’t the only one. About three times the expected crowd turned out with their electronics devices and other hazardous wastes for the annual municipal pickup at Carter Baron Amphitheater […]
Mounting food crises around the globe destabilized governments and began to look more and more like a cruel joke perpetrated by the rich northern hemisphere against its poorer brethren in the south. Especially culpable is the ill-advised policy of turning corn into automobile fuel as a means of propping up an over-indulged but teetering American […]
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At least five people and one United Nations soldier have been killed in Haiti as angry crowds rioted over the price of food. The Haitian parliament fired its prime minister shortly after president Rene Preval announced plans to cut the price of rice. The cost of food in Haiti has risen at least 50 percent […]
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