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29116 Why India needs transgenic crops -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >In response to your sheesh, Brad. You are correct that the US would be >expected to have low yield, high output per labor conditions. The not >particularly productive would imply several aspects; You could just as >easily say that traditional Asian -- high yield, low output per hour is >productive. In addition, the externalities from US ag are horrendous. I >wrote a book about this in 1977 and it pretty much holds true today. I really don't get this ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 30 08:01:12 PDT 2002

29117 Question for the list -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I think there exists data suggesting that CEOs as a group are thinner >and taller than the average. I once heard it claimed that there's not a single fat CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I haven't fact-checked that, but it seems right. As I've said before, think how the image of the banker has changed from the 300-lb J.P Morgan, who breakfasted on steak, oysters, and red wine, to Robert Rubin, marathon-runner. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 30 07:55:10 PDT 2002

29118 pacifica wars... -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, frank scott wrote: > >> and as grateful as I am for much that amy goodman has done, still can't >> forget the wretched job she did interviewing clinton, for which she >> became a heroine among the naive and gullible...he walked all over her, >> made her seem like a monica-with-mike, and she was treated like some >> joan of arc of radio for being so courageous or something...barf... > >What are you t ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 30 07:49:19 PDT 2002

29119 Why India needs transgenic crops -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >you are right and wrong. The US yields are not particularly high, but the >US output per worker are VERY high. Also, last I looked the US was a net >food importer, by $$$. We import the pricey stuff. Well, yeah, we don't make parmesan cheese like they do in Parma. But what about grains? The coffers are bursting with surplus product, no? And high output per worker is not to be despised, is it? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 30 07:45:38 PDT 2002

29120 Bank of Canada - why so austere? -- rank: 1000

[Ted Winslow, visiting NYC, said to me yesterday that the BoC is infected by a very Protestant, austere, order-obsessed national culture, in contrast to the U.S., where the national pursuit of happiness operates to make central bankers less austere than their foreign counterparts.] Canada, Raising Rates, May Have Foggy Crystal Ball Mon Jul 29,12:00 PM ET By Amran Abocar TORONTO (Reuters) - Crystals balls are essential gadgets for any self-respecting central banker, but analysts are beginning to ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 30 07:29:47 PDT 2002

29121 Halle weighs in -- rank: 1000

[Two more from John Halle. I'll assert my moderator's privilege and take issue with the claim that the archives are full of neo-Marxist minutiae. There's all kinds of stuff in there. He's not suggesting that any theoretical discussion is irrelevant, or that the test of a discourse is its immediate relevance to organizing, is he?] >At 6:25 PM -0400 7/29/02, John Halle wrote: >>[How does John Halle know that listmembers' engagement with "the >>movement" is "exclusivel ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 30 07:22:57 PDT 2002

29122 pacifica wars... -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The deal is, as I understand it from sources close to it, that the Pacifica >board negotiated the deal without a lawyer. Goodman rolled them, plain and >simple. It is an insane and stupid deal. Who needs a lawyer to tell you that signing away your principal asset, giving it $400,000 of free money, total editorial control, and a donor list, while getting nothing in return but the same programming you'd been getting all along is a stupid deal? The only silver linin ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 30 06:58:48 PDT 2002

29123 Why India needs transgenic crops -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >The US model is not particularly productive. It was designed to save >labor; US yields are actually fairly low. I've heard you say this before, but could you give more detail? My impression is that the U.S. is a formidable food producer; how wrong am I? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 29 19:18:14 PDT 2002

29124 Dow 36,000? sure! -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 28, 2002 'Dow 36,000' Gurus Hold Fast To Belief in Market's Potential By CRAIG KARMIN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Remember the best-selling book, "Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market"? With stocks plunging, and many giddy investors who swore by the book now burning it, the authors must be sheepishly admitting how foolish and wrong they were, right? Well, no. Even though the Dow Jones Industrial Ave ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 29 15:39:14 PDT 2002

29125 WCOM, RIP -- rank: 1000

At 9:19 PM +0000 7/29/02, CBS MarketWatch Alerts wrote: >Breaking News Bulletin: WorldCom to be delisted Tuesday by Nasdaq > >http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/basic.asp?symb=US:WCOEQ&dist=bnb&siteid=mktw

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Date:	Mon Jul 29 14:29:26 PDT 2002

29126 it's cracking!! -- rank: 1000

At 2:14 PM -0400 7/29/02, Gallup NewsAlerts wrote: >Bush Job Approval Update > >Current reading of 69% is first drop below 70% level since Sept. 11

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Date:	Mon Jul 29 12:25:50 PDT 2002

29127 Reebok workers protest order cancellations in Indonesia -- rank: 1000

Reebok Workers Protest in Indonesia Mon Jul 29, 3:22 PM ET JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - More than a thousand Reebok workers protested outside the American Embassy in Jakarta Monday over a cut in orders they claimed left 5,400 workers without jobs. It was the fifth protest this year at the U.S. Embassy staged by workers from the factory in the central Indonesian city of Bandung which makes shoes for Reebok, the world's second largest athletic shoe maker. "Reebok are killers!" "Reebok ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 29 12:32:31 PDT 2002

29128 Pacifica Wars (cont.) -- rank: 1000

If you're tired of the whole Pacifica fight, delete this now. If you're not...the controversy continues. I suspect lots of people stopped following the story after the restoration of the old order. But there are lots of smoldering controversies now around how the organization should be governed. Local boards? Elected? if so by whom? The answer is usually "the community," but no one ever asks how this community is designated and by whom. The hottest controversy of all is the deal that P ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 29 12:24:39 PDT 2002

29129 Fwd: green dysfunctionality and left disengagement -- rank: 1000

[How does John Halle know that listmembers' engagement with "the movement" is "exclusively literary"? I'm guessing that quite a few subscribers are quite active in nonliterary ways.] X-From_: john.halle at SNET.Net Mon Jul 29 12:50:05 2002 X-Originating-IP: [64.252.101.9] X-SBCIS-MTA: [pop.snet.net] Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:50:56 -0400 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: John Halle <john.halle at SNET.Net> Subject: green dysfunctionality and left disenga ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 29 10:30:29 PDT 2002

29130 WSWS: class angling the Penna miner story -- rank: 1000

[Geraldo Rivera's on the scene, touting the ordinary heroes who are so unlike corrupt CEOs and squabbling politicians. True enough. But how refreshing to read this.] <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jul2002/mine-j29.shtml> [...] Mine officials and government safety experts have been quick to blame faulty maps for the Quecreek disaster. Indeed, the maps with which the miners were working showed the Saxman mine as being 300 feet from the spot where they hit it. But it has long been known t ...

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