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Let’s just say, dear blog reader, that you weren’t aware there was a world food crisis. Let’s just say you weren’t aware that there was widespread panic over the soaring price of rice. Self gets hers from Marina Mart in Foster City, where a 30-lb. bag of Jasmine rice from Thailand costs about $10.

“So, no surprise that when we incarcerate teenagers of today in traditional classroom settings, they react with predictable disinterest and flunk their literacy tests. They are skilled in making sense not of a body of known content, but of contexts that are continually changing.

On May 5, the idea of bargain shopping on eBay took a new twist. Item 100237099149 went up for sale for the sum of $75 but the item was actually quite priceless. You see, what appeared to be just another auction item was actually a CD containing the “income-tax returns for 2005 of the entire Italian people.” That’s not a typo.

I am a life-long Z-lister, no doubts about it. But today I found myself on a much different Z-list: The Industry Standard’s Top 25 B-to-Z List Blogs: These are the blogs you won’t see on the Techmeme Leaderboard, Technorati’s Top 100 blogs, or the CruchBase BloggerBoard … at least not yet.

Get Ready to Spend $6,000 a Year on Gas Posted on May 15th, 2008 (42 minutes ago) by blogger Get Ready to Spend $6,000 a Year on Gas Two years ago a leading economist published a study provocatively titled: “What would $120 oil mean for the global economy?” Answer: a global recession, if the price stayed there for a year.

“More than any other candidate this year, he has articulated an idea of a nobler America,” according to the Economist. “That is partly because of who he is.  When Obama’s parents married, in 1960, a union such as theirs, between a white woman and a black man, was illegal in over half of America’s

Credit crisis: Fixing finance Crises are endemic to financial systems. Attempts to regulate them may do more harm than good. Zimbabwe: The end of another African tragedy beckons As power slips away from Robert Mugabe, the world faces the huge task of saving a country.

The Economist May 3rd 2008 PDF The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by “The Economist Newspaper Ltd” and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843.

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The Economist reported about a council in London that uses voice-risk analysis (VRA) as a way of identifying fraudulent claims for social-security benefits. "VRA is not new. The version used in this test at Harrow was developed by an Israeli company, Nemesysco, for use by the country's intelligence