World On the Web: Birth pains

World On the Web: Birth pains

"When Afghan farmers plow under their poppy fields to grow grain because cereal is becoming more lucrative than heroin; when The Wall Street Journal suggests 'it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food' -- and they're not smiling; when CNN reports that 'riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention'; then this is the world's big story.