From Foreign Affairs, C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer (Minnesota): How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor. An interview with entomologist Hans Herren on a United Nations report calling for changes in how the world produces its food. Amartya Sen on how the global food problem is not being caused by a falling trend in world production, it is the result of accelerating demand. Forget the Large Hadron Collider: Here are the next 5 extreme research machines you need to know. Ma Jian is certainly not lacking in ambition, but in trying to create the Great Chinese Novel with Beijing Coma, he’s written the little man out of history. From TLS, a review of Doris Lessing's Alfred and Emily (and an interview at Bookforum). The world is not enough: Depending on where you stand, VS Naipaul is either a grand old man

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