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| No word on status of Shippensburg parks manager (The Sentinel) Shippensburg officials are saying nothing about the status of Parks Manager Kip Fordney and the parks and recreation office. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Owner exposes van with a few screws loose (Bradenton Herald) I have a 2004 Toyota Sienna XLE with 28,000 miles. Last month while camping with our family, the big automatic sliding door on the right side of the car stopped working. We manually shut the door and did not open it again until we got home. Once home, my 5-year-old pushed the button to open that door, and the door fell off the car. Yep. Fell off the side of the car. It literally was hanging by ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
FEMA to Close La. Trailer Parks (Time Magazine) The Federal Emergency Management Agency is planning to close by Friday as many as 13 trailer parks in Louisiana where victims of the 2005 hurricanes are currently living us.rd.yahoo.com |
CONNECTICUT; Imagine No Religion? Imagine a Conversation (1 Letter) To the Editor:. nytimes.com |
The African Green Revolution [Scientific American Magazine] Africa needs a green revolution. Food yields on the continent are roughly one metric ton of grain per hectare of cultivated land, a figure little changed from 50 years ago and roughly one third of the yields achieved on other continents. In low-income regions elsewhere in the world, the introduction of high-yield seeds, fertilizer and small-scale irrigation boosted food productivity beginning in the mid-1960s and opened the escape route from extreme poverty for huge populations. A similar takeoff in sub-Saharan Africa is both an urgent priority and a real possibility.Until this change happens, Africa’s vast rural areas, which are home to two thirds of its population, will remain mired in poverty, hunger and high child mortality and will stay isolated from the world market economy. Proven technologies--high-yield seeds, new water-management techniques and ways to replenish soil nutrients--are already achieving three to five tons per hectare in many parts of Africa but too often only in small demonstration projects. [More] rss.sciam.com |