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MADDEN NFL 06 The 300-LB. linebacker of sports franchises, Madden shoulders its way onto the 360 in fine form. Its designers have wisely chosen not to mess with success, using the 360's extra power to add detail instead: better weather effects, realistic sweat and more trash talk. But it's not all window dressing. The play calling has been improved, and look for sweet new moves from the players, as well as some extra-crunchy tackles...
...world of perfect Ricardian economics, West African cotton growers would be thriving. That's because they can produce and trade high-quality cotton more cheaply than just about anyone--for about 31¢ per lb., compared with 68¢ per lb...
...small-town boy's big-city dream, he hopes to move from amateur to professional in the sacred rings of sumo in the sport's motherland. "The only place to reach the top is in Japan," he says. For the past two months, the 6-ft. 3-in., 276-lb. teen heavyweight has lived and trained with top amateur wrestlers affiliated with Nihon University in Tokyo. Two of his countrymen have enjoyed sumo success in Japan--as have many non-Japanese in the past decade--and Gorgadze hopes to persuade one of the 54 professional sumo beya, or stables...
...biggest problem Diarra faces, though, isn't environmental or even in Africa. It is 5,000 miles away: the $3 billion or more the U.S. pays its 25,000 cotton farmers in subsidies every year. Washington uses taxpayer money to guarantee American farmers a price?currently about 72? per lb.?whether it rains or bakes and no matter what happens on the world market. By contrast, in 2003, when Mali's cotton farmers earned 42? per lb., Diarra says he made a profit of $480, which he used to buy four cows and send his children to school...
...world of perfect Ricardian economics, West African cotton growers would be thriving. That's because they can produce and trade high-quality cotton more cheaply than just about anyone?for about 31? per lb., compared with 68? per lb...