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Antonio and the world's 25 million other small coffee growers don't have a lot of career alternatives. So you'd think they would be enthusiastic about Fair Trade - a global campaign that for 25 years has sought to bring struggling Third World farmers, including Antonio, out of poverty by paying them higher-than-market prices for everything from coffee to quinoa. Along the way, it has recruited retail giants like Starbucks, which is the globe's largest purchaser of Fair Trade - certified coffee...
...output and greener government policies have put global carbon dioxide emissions on track to drop 2.6% in 2009, the largest slide in 40 years. Analysts hope the dip will bolster efforts to reach a new climate pact in Copenhagen in December. But so far, despite repeated calls for action, world leaders have made scant progress toward replacing the Kyoto Protocol, which expires...
...diplomat Irina Bokova edged out Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosny to become head of the U.N. culture-and-education body in a vote marred by controversy over Hosny's comment, made last year, that he would burn all Israeli books in Egyptian libraries. Hosny blamed a "group of the world's Jews" for the defeat...
...What They're Listening to in Britain: At 92, Dame Vera Lynn became the oldest living artist to notch a best-selling record when her collection of World War II--era songs, We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn, shot to No. 1 on the U.K. album charts. Lynn's 24-song compilation coincided with the 70th anniversary of the start...
Gradually, differences arise between the once inseparable Julia and Valentina. In the land of perfect oneness, asymmetries are afoot. Valentina wants to go out into the world and be a fashion designer. She feels trapped and smothered by their twinnish dyad. Julia wants to keep things as they are and feels betrayed by Valentina's growing independence. The distracting presences of Elspeth (whom only Valentina can see) and two attractive male neighbors push the girls further off balance. They can't stay together, and they can't separate. Something will have to give...