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...several reasons: rising long-term demand in countries such as China and India, where millions of increasingly prosperous people are eating more; short-term supply shocks thanks to unusually cold weather and pest infestation in Vietnam, the world's second largest supplier of rice; and the diversion of a huge chunk of America's corn crop to ethanol production, which has boosted demand for other staples, including rice...
...suffering, too. Valerie Guarnieri, Philippines director for the U.N. World Food Program, which feeds about 1.1 million Filipinos, says rising prices mean her organization will have to spend about 60% of its $19 million budget on food, up from 45% last year. "It's going to have a huge impact on our operation," Guarnieri says...
...accepted notions of visual art well before such challenges became common practice among her peers. And when Eugenia Butler did explore physical media, she maintained her dedication to the provocative and at times discomfiting. My Last Museum Piece, her 2003 reprise of an original 1969 work, consisted of a huge, clear plastic ball, its interior smeared with honey and buzzing with captive flies. She suffered a brain hemorrhage...
...outlets, but many of its 46 brewhouses are brewpubs, which produce beer only for their own bars, and part of the fun of a beer tour is seeing where bottles you can buy at home are manufactured. San Diego may have a more innovative beer scene--guys experimenting with huge alcohol and huge bitterness--but it has only 28 breweries, and the intensity of the beer will freak out anyone who grew up on Bud. But Denver, dubbed the Napa of Beer, is the most tourist-friendly. It has 74 breweries within 100 miles (160 km) of downtown, restaurants that...
...protests, which have been spurred by last month's unrest in Tibet, reached a jarring high point in last week's huge, chaotic outpourings in London and Paris. The unrest has made a mockery of the theme for this summer's Beijing Olympics: "One World, One Dream." In the words of David Zweig, head of the Center on China's Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, "'One World, One Dream' has turned out to be quite a nightmare...