India's Poor Starve as Wheat Rots The reason, experts and officials agree, is the economics and particularly the politics of food in India, a country that has modernized on many fronts but that remains desperately poor.

John Bloom on Copyrights on National Review Online The copyright issue was argued three centuries ago, and it was established as a principle of democracy that, when the author is dead, his work becomes the property of all. This was modified slightly to allow the first generation after his death to continue to collect royalties, presumably to protect widows and children. But that's all that was intended. There was no argument ever made for a third- or fourth-generation royalty, much less a perpetual assignment of royalties to a corporation that never dies.