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...Until now, aid agencies have been hard pressed to respond. The WFP says soaring food costs and supply-chain disruptions have dented its ability to distribute food to the hungry. The organization bought a record $667 million worth of food for donations last year; about 80% of that was spent in developing countries to buy produce from small farmers. But even farmers in poor countries are holding out for more money. Traders in Cambodia and Sri Lanka recently broke agreements to sell rice to the WFP because they "preferred to sell it where prices were higher," says WFP spokeswoman Brenda...
...College report finds that most of the Class of 1908 spent $500 to $1,000 per year to attend Harvard. A 1909 New York Times article reports that “the popular view of expensive living at the Cambridge institution was erroneous.” The survey also shows that every 1908 graduate either had “a lucrative position or is pursuing advanced study in college...
...Since I spent the last seven years developing this system, now that we have it, there are a lot of things I want to do,” she said...
...Since securing the G.O.P. nomination in March, McCain has spent his time raising money, reassuring uneasy conservatives and building, haltingly, a full-scale campaign operation for the race ahead. "We've also been watching Obama lose a lot," says a McCain adviser. "It's been instructive." The Democratic primary fight exposed Obama's weaknesses with downscale white voters, and white women generally - weaknesses McCain hopes he can exploit as the general election gets under way (which is why he threw a few verbal bouquets to Hillary in his speech). As McCain aides like to point out, their candidate has managed...
...That turned out to be the one. Once she hit on that authentic theme, she began doing very, very well. History will note that Barack Obama won the nomination in February and spent the next four months trying not to let her take it back...