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...billion world coffee market, but to farmers like Triphine Mukamyasiro, 23, whose family was killed in the genocide, it's huge. She made $30 annually when she started selling coffee in 1993. After joining a pearl co-op, she began earning some $400 a year, about twice as much as the typical Rwandan takes home. Christian Ruzigama, 41, returned to find his plantation in tatters. Now, with his profits, he has built a house and sends his children to school. Rwandan beans are jumping these days: this year's crop sold out, with Green Mountain coffee, Whole Foods and other...
...these conclusions until after the big disaster hits - as was the case with Miami and South Florida, where I live, in the wake of Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Today, when a major storm approaches Miami, the buses are out and the shutters are up-I put mine up twice last summer for hurricanes I knew probably weren't even going to strike. I saw little evidence of that preparedness along the Gulf coast; few houses had strongly-shuttered windows, and evacuation busses, according to residents, were in short supply. "It's just the New Orleans mentality," one Orleanian...
...disaster could provide fuel for efforts by Sunni opponents of the proposed constitution to court Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shi'ite cleric who has twice led armed uprisings against U.S. troops. The base of his support is in the Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, home to one-third of Baghdad's population. If al-Sadr called on his poor Shi'ite followers to join Sunnis in opposing the charter, it is likely it would be defeated. Abdul Salam al-Qubaisi, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, a hard-line Sunni group, claims al-Sadr is working...
...whole, O’Hagan took the field with the first-team offense six times, while Irvin did so just three times. O’Hagan and junior wide receiver Corey Mazza, who led his side with seven receptions for 98 yards, connected twice for scores in the first quarter. Both touchdowns came on drives that began in Lions territory...
...Number of children in Asia, out of 1.27 billion, who lack access to at least one basic human need?food, potable water, health care or shelter?according to a report by development agency Plan 350 million Number of Asian children without access to two or more basic human needs, twice as many as in sub-Saharan Africa...