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...aims to fit together in his new book Stuffed and Starved - a sweeping look at the development of the international food chain that delivers calories from nation to nation with an alarmingly uneven hand. As its title promises, the book tackles one of the chief dysfunctions of our unique era in alimentary history: that 800 million people are getting too little to eat and are malnourished, while over 1 billion are getting so much they've become overweight or obese...
...China's superrich, bidding successfully for objets d'art taken out of the country during the era of foreign subjugation, then bringing them home to the motherland, has become an important show of status. Like endowing a university or hospital, it wins official gratitude. But more deliciously, it can make headlines as the world oohs and ahs over sums spent. In 2006, Hong Kong petroleum executive Alice Cheng paid $19.4 million for a prized decorated bowl, shattering the previous world record for Qing dynasty porcelain. In late September, Macau gaming tycoon Stanley Ho spent $8.9 million on a bronze horse...
Most of the world's Zeppelin hangars have disappeared since the deadly explosion of the Hindenburg abruptly ended the airship era in 1937. But five of them, originally built for German war dirigibles, have long been a point of local pride in Latvia's cosmopolitan capital of Riga, where they've been converted to a higher and more peaceful purpose: food...
First, some history. Because Marines deploy aboard ships, the service's chiefs have always hungered for vertical lift - aircraft that could take off and land from small decks and fly far inland to drop off combat-ready troops. As the Marines' Vietnam-era CH-46 choppers became obsolete, commanders started to dream of an aircraft that would give them more options when considering an amphibious assault. The dreams intensified following the failed Desert One mission in 1980 to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran. In the course of the operation, three helicopters broke down, leading to an order to abort...
...McMillian said. “It’s written for scholars, but we shun the myopic form you sometimes find in academia, so we can reach both scholars and public intellectuals.” He said the journal will include interviews with people of the era, book reviews, poetry, and perhaps graphics. Michael S. Foley, an associate professor of history at the City University of New York and one of McMillian’s co-editors, said the new journal will offer a global view of historical topics from the 1960s. “Scholars all over the world...