• In India's northern state of Punjab, 27-year-old rice farmer Amardeep Singh lamented having to scrap plans to throw his younger brother a wedding.

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  • "The development of new reservoirs is imperative, " said Daniel Berglund, a 49-year-old rice farmer in Markham, Texas, who said he woke up at 1:15 a.m.

    WSJ: Texas Rice Farmers Lose Their Water

  • But with the meat of the order coming up, Werth grounded into a 6-4-3 double play against 31-year-old rookie Scott Rice.

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  • The 72-year-old former chairman of American Rice sees a future in importing pistachios from Iran.

    FORBES: Nutty

  • Margin traders rarely show up in stock-ownership surveys, although they are perhaps the heirs to the rice traders of old.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese stockmarkets

  • But rice is an old measure of wealth, even in Asia.

    CNN: Stops and Starts

  • Rice, the 31-year old rookie, could finally call himself a major-league baseball player.

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  • On his return to Hong Kong 10 years later, his father's rice paddy was paved over and his old neighborhood had become a dormitory suburb called Fanling New Town.

    CNN: SPECIAL REPORT CITIES

  • Eventually the U.S. will come around, too, since it must replace as much as 50 gigawatts of existing nuclear power by midcentury. (One very large power plant produces a gigawatt.) "Describe to me how it works by 2040 if you don't have new nuclear plants built, " says John Rice, the 48-year-old vice chairman, who started out with Immelt in GE's plastics division.

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  • Iranian rice farms depend completely on cultivation techniques many centuries old and it is impossible to compete.

    BBC: Iran drought hits rice farmers

  • "I went from being young and a prospect to being the old guy on the team having to prove myself, " Rice said.

    WSJ: At Last, a Big-Leaguer

  • Mr Hale, speaking via satellite telephone, says his family is struggling with an old power generator and food that is not much more than rice and flour.

    ECONOMIST: By bulldozer, across a national park

  • That's the kind of solution the feisty economist thinks genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be for some of China's biggest problems, and the 44-year-old Huang has been pushing Chinese planners for almost six years to allow the commercialization of GM rice.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Many of them are so old they have to be carried out to the lunch room, where they are served a frugal meal of rice, lentils and vegetables.

    BBC: Bringing hope to elderly and terminally ill Indians

  • Meanwhile, Isabel Santiago, a 67-year-old widow and neighbor of Pedro Castro, called him a "sweet guy" who used to bring her rice and beans from the house where he lived with his mother across the street.

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