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...seriously degraded, and in many areas it is on the verge of permanent failure. For centuries, farmers survived by clearing new land for each season's plantings and allowing old fields to lie fallow and replenish their nutrients. But the continent's fourfold increase in population since the 1950s has forced farmers to grow crop after crop on the same fields, draining them of all nourishment. Do that for a long enough time, and the physical nature of the soil changes. It becomes so tightly compacted that it can't hold water or let roots spread. "Eventually...
...study group will focus both on liberalism in the Muslim world and on American and British policy choices after Iraq, the IOP announced. Flug, who began his career in politics here at Harvard as news director of the campus radio station WHRB in the late 1950s, will lead a study group on the U.S. Senate. It’s a topic he knows well—in the 1960s and 1970s, he was a top adviser to Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 and returned to the Massachusetts Democrat’s office...
...Hollywoodland was allowed to use a Superman costume, because the fictional figure is so iconic it's considered part of the public domain. But for the original 1950s' TV show The Adventures of Superman, Warners had more legal clout. The studio was highly restrictive regarding the new movie's use of the TV show's original theme and famous introduction ("Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive...") "They looked at the opening title of the TV series down to the second," says Coulter. "We had to re-shoot the entire title sequence." As a result, Hollywoodland...
...terms of imagination, time and space. The folkloric tradition frees the imagination - humans talk with birds, people change shapes, they go to heaven and back." Ngugi's early novels were built around defining moments in Kenya's history, such as the Mau Mau uprising against the British in the 1950s, during which one of his brothers was killed. But after his third novel, A Grain of Wheat, "I became increasingly disturbed that I was drawing from a people's history, their lives, blood, sweat and culture created in and by a national language, but what I was writing was encased...
...faith should not be actively involved in government" and that her comments reflected "her deep grounding in Judeo-Christian values". Nonetheless, major newspapers around the state are endorsing 71-year-old LeRoy Collins Jr. whose biggest selling points are that he is the son of Florida's beloved 1950s Gov. LeRoy Collins, he has promised to serve only one term - and most important of all, he is not Katherine Harris...