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...This is leading to a new face of hunger in the world.' JOSETTE SHEERAN, head of the U.N. World Food Program, warning that the global rise in basic-food prices could continue until 2010. Food riots have broken out in Morocco, Yemen, Mexico, Senegal and Uzbekistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

JOSETTE SHEERAN, head of the U.N. World Food Programme, warning that the global rise in basic food prices could continue until 2010. Food riots have broken out in Morocco, Yemen, Mexico, Senegal and Uzbekistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...basic premise of musique concrète is to make music that combines “real” sounds recorded in the everyday world with tape effects to create a dense, atmospheric work of art. The related discipline of electroacoustic music often involves a live performer, but they are simply one part of the mix alongside the pre-recorded sounds. New playing techniques and strange harmonies are blended in to stretch the music even further. Melodies and rhythms are buried deep and are often extremely difficult to find. In short, this is not the music you will be tested...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing the Music Electric in Paine Hall | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...those responsible: Convert! Convert! One day the judgment of God will come!" These words should take root in the conscience of all who call themselves Christian. Yet destroying the bond between politics and organized crime is not just an ethical choice, but a vital necessity for democracy and a basic exercise of self-defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maimed by the Mob | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...Economist, there are two reasons for the rise: Asians and ethanol. Firstly, rising wealth levels in Asia have led to higher spending power, and Asians are increasingly choosing to supplement their traditionally cheap, rice-based diets with more expensively produced meat. But the second cause of skyrocketing demand for basic foodstuffs is America’s most recent renewable energy craze: ethanol...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Hello, Ethanol. Goodbye, Bacon. | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

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