Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Sub-Unit (Korean Central News Agency) Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected a sub-unit of KPA Unit 826. After acquainting himself with the sub-unit's performance of duty, he watched the training of its servicepersons. [News Source]

Guyana and the wider world. A central proposition of this analysis of rapidly rising food prices globally, is that the only long-term sustainable solution to this is the reconstitution of global trade. [News Source]

Japan halts beef from US over missing papers. Japan has halted beef imports from a major U.S. meatpacking plant after finding a shipment without a proper food safety certificate, officials said Friday, Aug. 8. [News Source]

Whole Foods recalls beef processed at plant long at odds with USDA. Whole Foods Market pulled fresh ground beef from all of its stores Friday, becoming the latest retailer affected by an E. coli outbreak traced to Nebraska Beef, one of the nation's largest meatpackers. [News Source]

Mad cows and livid lambs. It's now widely accepted that the relationship between humans and animals is changing. Something is causing them to turn on us. And it's being taken seriously enough by scientists that it has earned its own acronym: HAC-'human-animal conflict'. [News Source]

Booze ban at beaches offers up two images (San Diego Union-Tribune) It's a paradox that's been applied to a glass of water, to a keg of beer, and now to San Diego's beaches. Some people will see them as half-full, others as half-empty. Just last month we celebrated the Fourth of July, a day when our beaches usually look like the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. [News Source]

donga.com[English donga] (donga.com) A left-leaning group devoted to ending capitalism, Altogether, will hold “Marxism 2008” Thursday through Aug. 17 at Korea University in Seoul. [News Source]

‘Wurst’ fears allayed as Swiss sausage saved (AFP via Yahoo! News) Swiss carnivores can breathe a sigh of relief after producers told Swiss media Sunday that the country's national sausge -- the cervelat -- has been "saved." [News Source]

‘Wurst’ fears allayed as Swiss sausage saved (PhysOrg) Swiss carnivores will breathe a sigh of relief after producers told Swiss media Sunday that the country's national sausge -- the cervelat -- has been "saved." [News Source]