A State With Plenty of Jobs but Few Places to Live

Mercedes Allen, with her son, Hunter, scanned ads for scarce housing in Williston, N.D. More Photos »
By MONICA DAVEY
Published: April 20, 2010

WILLISTON, N.D. — When Joey Scott arrived here recently from Montana, he had no trouble finding work — he signed almost immediately with a company working to drill in the oil fields. But finding housing was another matter. More

From Dung to Coffee Brew With No Aftertaste

A civet farm in Liwa, a town in Sumatra, where the catlike animals eat coffee cherries. Their droppings contain coffee beans fermented in their stomachs.
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Published: April 17, 2010

SAGADA, the Philippines — Goad Sibayan went prospecting recently in the remote Philippine highlands here known as the Cordillera. He clambered up and then down a narrow, rocky footpath that snaked around some hills, paying no heed to coffins that, in keeping with a local funeral tradition, hung very conspicuously from the surrounding sheer cliffs. More

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