Word: farmers
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...predictable rainfall, Thailand has become one of the world's leading agricultural nations. It is the world's fourth largest producer of sugar and the third biggest rubber exporter. This year Thailand expects to become the world's leading rice exporter. Ironically, the country's farmers remain among the poorest in Asia, a factor that Kriangsak recognizes as a serious threat to internal security. The most oppressive exploiter of the farmer is Bangkok itself, which by government decree keeps the rice price paid to the farmer well below world levels. The "rice premium" has been...
Recent travels have shown me that John Wayne's popularity is global [June 25]. In Australia, a farmer asks when the next John Wayne film will come out. In Burma, the Duke's picture hangs in a corner restaurant. An Afghani shop owner, addressing my question of how life has changed under the new pro-Soviet regime, replies that the John Wayne movies have gone. In eastern Turkey, when I tell a nomad I am from America, he reaches to his side in a mock draw and with a big grin exclaims. "John Wayne!" Now. back...
...places to tape an oral history of family life at what is now the Roosevelt Campobello Park. James, a business consultant, recalled that "when we were small and lived here, we didn't have any electricity and we didn't have any telephone." Franklin, a businessman and farmer, remembered that their mother liked to buy Wedgwood in the neighboring village. None, somehow, spoke at first of the overpowering father figure for whom the sun set at Campobello when he contracted polio and then rose again when he hobbled away-from it and them-to become the only four...
...Shinagel explains it, he was standing on a huge pile of cow manure in upstate New York on a hot, muggy day with flies swarming around his face. Suddenly, in a moment of revelation, he knew the simple life of a dairy farmer would not be the answer. He finished up his first year at Cornell, and then volunteered to fight in Korea...
...Dairy Farmer Clair Hoover, whose pastures are barely five miles from the nuke, has reported 19 dead cows in the past six weeks. Although a simple infection may be responsible, as it often is during calving season, Hoover admits: "I can't help but have my thoughts." William Peffer of nearby Newberrytown, who had evacuated his family to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., says that his wife still wakes in a cold sweat at night...