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...become an essential social ticket for the city's political and media class - will be remembered as a rare cease-fire moment in the heated 2008 presidential campaign. Exchanging rolled-up shirt sleeves for white ties, John McCain and Barack Obama cracked each other up on topics that usually result in outraged press statements when raised on the campaign trail. "I got my name, Barack, from my father," deadpanned Obama, "and I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for President...
...result, many Catholics can now argue that neither party fits precisely with Catholic social teaching - the Democratic position on abortion is still unacceptable but so are GOP positions on education and health care and the war in Iraq. This realization is reflected in changing party identification - as of this past February, 41% of Catholic voters called themselves Independents, an 11-point increase since 2004. And in opinion polls, Catholics are evenly divided between Obama and McCain...
...have fled the country in search of a livelihood, and aid agencies are warning of a severe food shortage, even starvation, over Christmas. Responding to those concerns, Tsvangirai said Friday: "We are mindful of the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe and the collapse of the economy as a result of decades of dictatorship, corruption and mismanagement. However, we are conscious that the people of Zimbabwe will not accept window-dressing and an empty politcal settlement that will not guarantee food, jobs, medicines, freedom and prosperity." But Mugabe appears to have other ideas about what the people of Zimbabwe...
...meet a sudden increase in demand," says Dole's Ohtaki. Dole Japan is trying to make up the shortfall by negotiating distribution deals with Dole corporations in other countries. Supplying the spike in demand will be lucrative, because banana prices in Japan have risen about 20% as a result of supply shortages that have coincided with the diet...
...predictable result: pollution of the country's lands and waters on a shocking scale. According to Vietnam's state media, thousands of large - and small-scale industries - discharge at least 33,000 cubic meters of waste into the Mekong River system every day. Midwife Le Thi Thanh Thuy, who lives a kilometer from the Vedan plant, tells pregnant women living along the Thi Vai River not to drink the water. Even some well water burns people's skin and isn't used to wash clothes. "They are so poor, they don't have enough money to buy rice," says Thuy...