Sugar: A Bittersweet History, Elizabeth Abbott, Penguin Canada, 2008, 453 pages

SWP Comments 2008/C 01, February 2008, 4 pages

Alongside their NATO allies German troops are facing a growing insurgency in Afghanistan. However, the alliance still lacks a joint strategy to deal with this challenge. While the US government recently called on NATO to pursue a “classical” counterinsurgency campaign, Germany insisted on the development of a more “comprehensive strategy” before the next Summit in Bucharest in April 2008. Yet, ...

Forgotten Pages of Jail History

capped by the empiricism and fetichism of the age; sanitary science did not exist; bacteriolgy was unheard of, and the medical world had not yet divorced itself from an impossible classification of disease, which, by its very nature, obscured the issues at stake and directed investigation away from the proper channels. One of Dr. Mouat's most noticeable failings was an undue prolixity, which ev...

Parasite Glycobiology: A Bittersweet Symphony

1 Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 2 Department of Parasitology & Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 3 Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 4 Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug ...

Cancer in Canada in 2008.

the withdrawal of Eu sugar preferences and the bittersweet reform pill for fiji

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 24 number 2 July 2009 © the australian national university The phased removal of European sugar preferences has cast a dark cloud over the sustainability of Fiji’s sugar industry. Using farm-level data, this article examines the extent to which IndoFijian farmers are technically efficient and the challenges faced in improving cane yields to offset the loss of EU...