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Students received meals that reflected their status, ranging from nutritionally balanced feasts to small portions of rice and beans...
...AMARANTH More protein than most grains --WILD RICE A marsh grass, native to North America --MILLET Ancient grain used as birdseed...
Total grains 155 200 Wheat 126 146 Corn 15 28 Rice...
...Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld--who is beginning to resemble Humphrey Bogart's unhinged Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny--lost his temper last week at the news that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was, finally, trying to coordinate the government's reconstruction efforts in Iraq. He said he hadn't been consulted in advance. He implied that Rice's effort wasn't very important, anyway. Rumors of a Pentagon boycott of the process began to bubble when the political, economic and counterterrorism group meetings were either canceled or held without civilian Pentagon participation. An NSC source offered the plausible argument that...
...reviving the debt-laden rural economies. In the farming town of Bahn Rong Kong Khao, near the city of Chiang Mai in the country's north, the government's $2.3 billion Village Fund program, a microlending scheme, is a mini miracle, say residents. Narong Fongkraew, 50, who grows rice and chilies on his small farm, credits the Village Fund with saving not just his farm but the whole community. "After 1997, banks stopped lending to us and some people were forced to borrow from moneylenders who charged high rates of interest," he says. Recently, Narong borrowed $475 from the Village...