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...skilled captains manage to negotiate their flat-bottomed boats through its shallow waters. But this year, with a drought gripping the entire country and water levels at record lows, the river is eerily quiet. What is normally a bustling waterway is becoming a winding river of sand, and farmers who depend upon the river for irrigation are watching the expanding sandbars as nervously as the boat captains. "If there is no water in the coming days," says 59-year-old farmer Vu Thi La, who just put in her spring rice seedlings, "it will...
...want to start by paying you a compliment. I think that right now you could be said to personify home cooking in 2010. You are what Fannie Farmer or Betty Crocker or James Beard was to Americans in the past. Or, I guess Betty Crocker is imaginary. But you're in that line. That's a huge compliment...
...author Michael Pollan as a consultant, Kenner's film takes consumers on a journey from the supermarket aisle to meat-packing plants to Congressional food-safety hearings to demonstrate how a handful of corporations often put profit ahead of consumer health, worker safety and the livelihood of the American farmer. (See a video interview with Michael Pollan...
There are two sports in which the Canadians expect nothing less than gold: hockey and curling, and not necessarily in that order. So why is curling a Canadian obsession? "Because we have winter," says Bill Holder, a grain farmer from Kenaston, Sask., who has been curling for 40 years. Though the game began in 16th century Scotland, Holder explains how curling caught on in the prairies of western Canada; essentially, he says, there was nothing else to do. In Canada, the shiny bald dome of Kevin Martin, 43, the Canadian men's curling skip, might as well be this year...
...believe people get tired of helping--only that they get tired of feeling helpless. The challenge arises when we witness what health crusader Paul Farmer calls "stupid deaths": death in childbirth, death by mosquito, death, in the case of Haiti, from infections that spread when crushed limbs aren't amputated fast enough. Help never arrives fast enough because no two disasters are alike and chaos is an agile enemy. So I wondered how we would feel, after texting our $10 donations to the Red Cross and writing checks to Save the Children, still coming home night after night...