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October 22, 2009
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Experts Worry About Feeding World as It Grows national Islamic University, kill-
ing at least six people, including
three female students. (NYT)
ROME — Scientists and de- buy enough food, but the numbers 2050 — the amounts needed to feed
velopment experts across the were inching up even before the a population expected to grow to
globe are racing to increase food crisis, the United Nations noted in 9.1 billion in 40 years. China Warns Pirates
production by 50 percent over a report last week. But the conundrum is whether BEIJING — China has vowed
the next two decades to feed the “The way we manage the global the food can be grown in the de- to rescue the crew of a coal-lad-
world’s growing population, yet agriculture and food security sys- veloping world where the hungry en cargo ship seized by pirates
many doubt their chances despite tem doesn’t work,” said Kostas G. can actually get it, at prices they far off the coast of Somalia, but
a broad consensus that enough Stamoulis, a senior economist at can afford. Poverty and difficult a negotiated settlement is more
land, water and expertise exist. the organization. “There is this growing conditions plague the likely, maritime experts said
The number of hungry people in paradox of increasing global food places that need new production Wednesday. European naval of-
the world rose to 1.02 billion this production, even in developing most, namely sub-Saharan Af- ficials said that the 25 Chinese
year, or nearly one in seven peo- countries, yet there is hunger.” rica and South Asia. crew members of the seized
ple, according to the U.N. Food Agronomists and development A straw poll of the experts in ship, the De Xin Hai, were unin-
and Agriculture Organization, experts who gathered in Rome Rome on whether the world will jured but that the captors were
despite a 12-year concentrated last week generally agreed that be able to feed its population in 40 moving the vessel toward the
effort to cut the number. the resources and technical years underscored uncertainty: Somali coast, where the hos-
The global financial recession knowledge were available to in- 73 said yes, 49 said no and 15 ab- tages were expected to join 120
added at least 100 million people crease food production by 50 per- stained. other hostages from other coun-
by depriving them of the means to cent in 2030 and by 70 percent in NEIL MacFARQUHAR tries. (NYT)
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intense interest from Hollywood The deals represent the latest ing business, Williams said. “A Foreign Exchange
to Iran. But it hasn’t earned much evidence of the intense interest core of our philosophy has always Fgn. currency Dollars in
revenue and certainly no profit. in what is known as the real-time been that Twitter is a distributed in dollars fgn.currency
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HOUSTON — Crude oil soared Best Research, a futures trading falling dollar almost always puts Switzerlnd .9953 .9872 1.0047 1.0129
to close above $80 a barrel on firm. “It’s off to the races.” upward pressure on oil.
Wednesday, breaking that psy- Analysts said rising oil prices The rise in the price of crude
chological barrier for the first reflected confidence that the econ- oil is being accompanied by an Boeing Reports Loss
time this year, despite weak glob- omy was beginning to rebound, as increase in gasoline prices. The The Boeing Co., which has
al economic conditions. well as higher demand from re- national average price of a gal- been struggling with costly de-
Prices have been up in nine of fineries for superior grades of oil lon of regular gasoline rose by 2 lays on two airplane programs,
the last 10 trading days, owing at that were cheaper to refine. cents on Wednesday from the day reported a larger third-quarter
least in part to the slide of the dol- But they say the most important before, to $2.60, according to AAA, loss on Wednesday than ana-
lar. Many oil analysts predicted factor is the falling value of the the automobile club. lysts had expected and lowered
that prices would continue to rise dollar, which is encouraging trad- That was nearly 12 cents above its full-year profit forecast. But
in coming weeks and could reach ers, institutions and foreign coun- the price of only a week ago. But the company said it still expect-
$100 a barrel by early next year. tries to invest their cash in assets it is still well below the $4 mark ed to begin flight tests of its 787
“Oil is just flying,” said Phil Fly- like oil and gold. Oil is priced in crossed in the summer of 2008. jet, known as the Dreamliner,
nn, senior market analyst at PFG- dollars on global markets, and a CLIFFORD KRAUSS this year. (NYT)
business Thursday, October 22, 2009 5
e d i t o r i a l s of t h e t i m e S NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
WEATHER Houston
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High/low temperatures for the 20 hours ended at 4 p.m.
yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) Los Angeles 79/ 57 0 83/ 59 S 87/ 60 S Geneva 53/ 37 0 63/ 48 C 55/ 46 C
for the 18 hours ended at 2 p.m. yesterday. Expected Miami 85/ 73 0.54 86/ 75 PC 88/ 76 PC Hong Kong 82/ 77 Tr 84/ 75 PC 84/ 73 S
conditions for today and tomorrow. Mpls.-St. Paul 48/ 45 0.41 45/ 35 C 43/ 33 R Kingston 90/ 79 0 86/ 77 T 84/ 77 T
New York City 68/ 52 0 73/ 56 PC 59/ 53 C Lima 68/ 63 0 69/ 63 C 70/ 62 C
Weather conditions: C-clouds, F-fog, H-haze, I-ice, PC- Orlando 82/ 64 0 87/ 66 PC 87/ 68 PC London 59/ 54 0.12 63/ 52 PC 64/ 52 PC
partly cloudy,R-rain, S-sun, Sh-showers, Sn-snow, SS- Philadelphia 74/ 46 0 76/ 53 S 60/ 51 C Madrid 58/ 50 0.47 59/ 52 Sh 64/ 48 PC
snow showers, T-thunderstorms, Tr-trace, W-windy. Phoenix 80/ 63 0 87/ 62 S 88/ 63 S Mexico City 76/ 55 0 79/ 50 Sh 75/ 54 Sh
Salt Lake City 55/ 38 0 64/ 42 PC 64/ 42 PC Montreal 50/ 43 0 46/ 30 R 43/ 27 C
U.S. CITIES San Francisco 64/ 55 0 69/ 55 PC 71/ 55 S Moscow 46/ 32 0 45/ 39 R 48/ 43 Sh
Yesterday Today Tomorrow Seattle 58/ 51 0.10 57/ 47 C 57/ 48 R Nassau 86/ 75 0 90/ 75 S 90/ 77 T
Atlanta 71/ 46 0 72/ 50 PC 68/ 60 Sh St. Louis 65/ 55 0 61/ 54 T 58/ 52 C Paris 56/ 52 0.03 63/ 48 PC 64/ 50 PC
Albuquerque 50/ 45 0.66 63/ 42 PC 66/ 41 S Washington 74/ 47 0 76/ 53 PC 68/ 54 C Prague 46/ 37 0 52/ 39 C 54/ 46 C
Boise 55/ 43 0 61/ 42 S 64/ 41 PC Rio de Janeiro 79/ 72 0.01 79/ 68 Sh 82/ 66 PC
Boston 68/ 52 0 71/ 51 PC 50/ 46 C FOREIGN CITIES Rome 71/ 48 0 72/ 63 T 72/ 57 R
Buffalo 59/ 52 0 64/ 52 PC 54/ 41 Sh Yesterday Today Tomorrow Santiago 64/ 41 0 77/ 44 PC 63/ 46 C
Charlotte 74/ 37 0 75/ 41 PC 72/ 54 Sh Acapulco 94/ 75 0 88/ 79 PC 88/ 79 PC Stockholm 50/ 39 0 46/ 39 C 45/ 39 C
Chicago 69/ 55 0.03 56/ 50 R 54/ 49 R Athens 71/ 52 0 75/ 57 PC 75/ 59 C Sydney 96/ 61 0 75/ 54 PC 82/ 54 PC
Cleveland 73/ 55 0 72/ 54 PC 58/ 54 Sh Beijing 68/ 41 0 72/ 52 S 72/ 50 S Tokyo 74/ 61 0 70/ 61 C 68/ 59 C
Dallas-Ft. Worth 70/ 62 0.90 64/ 58 C 70/ 46 PC Berlin 46/ 41 Tr 50/ 37 C 48/ 43 Sh Toronto 58/ 54 0 55/ 39 C 55/ 37 R
Denver 39/ 33 0.22 50/ 27 PC 57/ 30 PC Buenos Aires 61/ 57 0.47 73/ 54 PC 84/ 57 Sh Vancouver 56/ 52 0.04 55/ 48 C 57/ 48 R
Detroit 71/ 52 0.22 61/ 52 C 58/ 43 R Cairo 86/ 73 0 81/ 70 S 82/ 66 S Warsaw 41/ 37 0.43 45/ 39 C 50/ 43 Sh
sports journal Thursday, October 22, 2009 9
Case Suggests Safety Risk Goes Beyond N.F.L. Mets’ Madoff Ties
Brain damage commonly as- “I’ve looked at more than 1,000 ball field. The Mets and their owners,
sociated with boxers and recently brains, and I’ve never seen this in No records show how many the Wilpon family, may be in
found in deceased N.F.L. players any individual living a normal life concussions Borich sustained better financial shape than has
has been identified in a former — it’s only through head trauma,” while playing high school and been assumed. That is one con-
college athlete who never played said Dr. Ann McKee, an associate college football outside Salt Lake clusion being drawn from a fil-
professionally, representing new professor of neurology and pa- City and then at Western Illinois. ing released Friday by the U.S.
evidence about the possible safe- thology at the Boston University (His father, Joe, said in an inter- Bankruptcy Court in Manhat-
ty risks of college and perhaps School of Medicine. “The fact that view that he recalled 9 or 10, but tan, which is sorting through
high school football. we are seeing this disease, and it was unsure.) Regardless, the Bo- accounts in Bernard Madoff’s
As six former N.F.L. players had a devastating effect on their rich case could shift the spotlight company.
who died young have been found lives, now in a 42-year-old who away from concussions, which The report shows that Mets
with the condition, called chronic never played in the N.F.L. indi- often go undiagnosed and whose LP, one of the team’s financial
traumatic encephalopathy, scru- cates that it’s a more pervasive records are scattershot, to the arms, withdrew $570.5 million
tiny has focused on the N.F.L. problem than we recognize.” repetitive blows in football that from two accounts it held with
environment. This new case, an Chris Nowinski, who co-found- might contribute to C.T.E. Madoff’s company, $47.8 mil-
athlete who stopped playing after ed the Sports Legacy Institute to “The focus of the discussion of lion more than it put in. The
college, testifies more to the sport investigate the long-term effects brain-trauma issue has been on accounts were part of a list of
of football itself, said doctors in- of sports and was involved in the the N.F.L. — it really needs to be more than 30 in which more
volved in its discovery. Borich case, said it was signifi- on youth players,” Nowinski said. money was withdrawn than was
The man, the former Western cant for what it could say about “Ninety-nine percent of football deposited with Bernard L. Ma-
Illinois wide receiver Mike Bo- the unknown risks of amateur players in this country are college doff Investment Securities. As
rich, died at 42 of a drug overdose football. While pointing out that and below. They’re not being paid. a result, Mets LP and the oth-
in February after a downward it is just one case, Nowinski em- They don’t have as good access to ers were deemed “net winners”
spiral of depression and sub- phasized that head trauma is the medical people. And the fact that ineligible for compensation and
stance abuse that is generally only known cause of C.T.E., and they’re at risk for this disease potentially liable to being sued
associated with the type of tissue that Borich did not sustain any should give us great pause.” by Irving H. Picard, the court-
damage found in his brain. known head injuries off the foot- ALAN SCHWARZ appointed liquidator. (NYT)