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...people panic," says Job, a taxi driver. (Names have been changed in order to protect the speakers.) "The day will come when we say 'Enough is enough.'" We thought we were liberated, but we were not," Mapfumo says, two days after the Mutare show, over a stew-and-rice dinner in the living room of his spacious Harare home. (Even stars can't always get maize for sadza, the staple porridge.) Mapfumo, 57, whose waist-length dreadlocks seem designed to defy his receding hairline, realized in the late 1980s that he might have to go back to battle. "Corruption...
...eating an entire meal with her is a surreal, Apocalypse Now-esque nightmare. “I was just getting lunch by myself and reading the Gazette,” recalls a shellshocked Thomas A. Coppola ’03, “when suddenly I was in the rice paddies with Charlie everywhere.” Declared a crazed Patel—as Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” played in her mind—“I love the smell of lip balm in the morning?...
Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer create golden rice, a bioengineered strain enriched with beta-carotene...
...well-trodden path started with a gentle climb past golden rice paddies ready for harvest, then ducked into the cool embrace of massive rhododendron groves. My first days were long, about five hours of hiking broken up by a leisurely lunch. By the fourth day I was hiking only three hours to better adjust to the 3,000-m-plus altitude. I spent my afternoons lounging in the sun with a pot of tea and a book or visiting nearby hot springs with a cold beer. Hard-core? Hardly. I was getting more rest on my two-and-a-half...
...recent weeks, free government rations of such essentials as flour, rice, sugar and tea have been doubled to allow for household stockpiling. Remembering the fuel shortages of 1991, many Basrans are hoarding gasoline and cooking gas as well. It's accepted wisdom that power stations would be destroyed in the first wave of U.S. bombing, so the longest, most chaotic lines in the city are at the kerosene depots, where residents bring every kind of container--from soft-drink bottles to steel drums--to fill up with fuel for lamps and stoves...