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BBQ & Terrorism!
Posted on May 19, 2008 | No CommentsAMMAN, JORDAN — In 1994 I saw an incredibly funny film, Terrorism & BBQ, about a low-level Egyptian government employee who gets caught up in a Kafka-esque maze of bureaucracy... -
diy: water
Posted on May 15, 2008 | No CommentsWORLDWIDE– Surviving an 8.9 just got easier, because after the dust has cleared you will need clean safe water until the calvary arrives. And whether you are in Sichuan province... -
Miracle Berry!
Posted on May 13, 2008 | No CommentsWEST AFRICA– Lemonade without sugar? Pickles without puckering? Guinness milkshakes? Yes, if you had the miracle berry! For an hour after consuming this miraculous West African berry, which is about... -
Sun Food!
Posted on May 7, 2008 | No CommentsHAWAII, USA– Inventor John Grandinetti has built what could possibly be an answer to third world food safety, fuel shortages and safe water all in this affordable high-powered solar stove.... -
Worm War!
Posted on May 5, 2008 | No CommentsPHILLIPPINES– The Wall Street Journal reports that rising rice prices are causing a global panic, but they may also help the Ifugao tribespeople of the Philippines in their fight against... -
Food Fight!
Posted on April 30, 2008 | No CommentsCAIRO– Well before 8 o’clock on a late April morning, a line of about 30 eager customers forms at a modest bakery in this working-class neighborhood. With a global food... -
Food Demand Kills Asian Rainforests!
Posted on April 28, 2008 | 1 CommentHANOI- Asia’s rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, energy and commodity prices, forest experts warn. The... -
How To Topple a Regime!
Posted on April 23, 2008 | No CommentsWORLDWIDE– The idea of the starving masses driven by their desperation to take to the streets and overthrow the ancien regime has seemed impossibly quaint since capitalism triumphed so decisively... -
Taboo Grains!
Posted on April 22, 2008 | No CommentsWORLDWIDE– In Japan and South Korea, some manufacturers for the first time have begun buying genetically engineered corn for use in soft drinks, snacks and other foods. Until now, to... -
Cookie-gate!
Posted on April 17, 2008 | No CommentsPENNSYLVANIA– This election is turning into a good Old Fashioned Food Fight! The Wall Street Journal reports that at last night’s umpteenth Democratic Presidential debate, (Please, when will this end?)... -
Global Food Shortages!
Posted on April 17, 2008 | No CommentsDENILIQUIN, AUSTRALIA— Lindsay Renwick, the mayor of this dusty southern Australian town, remembers the constant whir of the rice mill. “It was our little heartbeat out there, tickety-tick-tickety,” he said,...