In South China, nearly a thousand miles from the civil war areas, rice rose from eighteen million dollars to thirty-six million dollars a picul within a few days.
The problem has grown into such epidemic proportions that this severe strain of resistant bacteria is being blamed for nearly 700,000 deaths each year throughout the world.
Last year, for example, there were nearly 29 million working days lost due to accidents and ill health, and more seriously, about 350 deaths because of accidents at work.
Or, if you only want to listen in the morning for example, thirty minutes of extra reading per day remains excellent — you could get through nearly two, 8-hour audiobooks per month at thirty minutes a day.