Red Cross breakfast to honor local heroes.
Byline: Ashley Bishop WORCESTER - Michael P. Tsotsis of Rutland joined the American Red Cross of Central Massachusetts as a board member in 1994. Since then, he has spearheaded fundraising efforts and helped the organization further its mission in Central Massachusetts. "We are very lucky...

UN warns on global food crisis; Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges int'l action.
Byline: VERONIKA OLEKSYN VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- The United Nations Secretary-General sounded a warning Friday about rocketing food prices, saying it has developed into a "real global crisis.'' Ban Ki-moon said the UN was very concerned, as were all members of the international community. ...

Lyonel Trouillot. L'amour avant que j'oublie.
Lyonel Trouillot. L'amour avant que j'oublie. Arles, France, Actes Sud. 2007. 183 pages. 18 [euro]. IBN 978-2-7427-6955-1 Following his award-winning novel Bicentenaire (2004), Lyonel Trouillot creates with L'amour avant que j'oublie a moving reflection composed with skeins of musical and color-filled blues on the human experience of...

Weighing In; The rice eaters.
Byline: Pat Sto. Tomas When I was doing grad school in UP Los Banos, I took a Food and Nutrition Economics course under an exchange professor from Cornell. The only thing I remember from that course was that food habits are the most difficult to...

Still manageable food crisis.
Byline: Fred M. Lobo THE impending global food crisis being feared by the World Bank will still be manageable for RP, Malacanang assures. No food riots are expected. Perhaps, only riotous prices. * * * President Arroyo vows to lead efforts...

Hot spot; Latin America.
9780313336614 Hot spot; Latin America. Dent, David W. Greenwood Press 2008 270 pages $65.00 Hardcover Hot spot histories F1410 One of a series providing background historical information for understanding...

Capitalizing on catastrophe; neoliberal strategies in disaster reconstruction.
9780759111028 Capitalizing on catastrophe; neoliberal strategies in disaster reconstruction. Ed. by Nandini Gunewardena and Mark Schuller. AltaMira Press 2008 273 pages $85.00 Hardcover Globalization and the environment series HV553 ...

Concerns on global food security mount.
BANGKOK/WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) -- Concerns about food security mounted on Thursday, as rice prices hit records in Asia and the United Nations warned that staples for the world's hungry were getting much more expensive. In the United States, Bush Administration officials downplayed notions of food shortages...

Kelsey P. Dewey; Gardner High School.
AGE: 18 HOMETOWN: Gardner PARENTS: Shaun and Lori Dewey HONORS AND AWARDS: Class of 2008 salutatorian; St. Michael's College Book Award for Outstanding Achievement and Community Service; Gardner Citizenship Award; Stanley Koplik Certificate of Mastery. SCHOOL ACTIVITIES: Class president, Grades 9,...

Reverend George John DeTellis.
ORLANDO, FL Rev. George John DeTellis, loving husband of 48 years to Jeanne DiPietro, passed away at his home in Orlando, Florida, on June 26, 2008, after a 9-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 73 years old. In 1957, he graduated from New England Bible Institute in Framingham,...