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...damage. And so at 12:39 p.m., the electricity sputtered off in Athens. Thousands of people, including Transport Minister Michalis Liapis, were stranded in the city's glittering new metro; hundreds more were stuck in elevators for up to four hours. The blackout soon spread to the country's agrarian south and the Ionian Islands, the worst power outage in Greece in decades. Authorities did their best to reassure the public, but on Thursday a fresh power cut caused by a faulty cable struck the Acropolis and two neighboring districts for an hour. Pantelis Kapros, president of the Greek Energy...
...centuries, travelers have depicted Burma as an agrarian paradise so fertile that, as one saying goes, a farmer tickles the earth with his hoe and it laughs a harvest...
This fall, Payne and his friends posted messages to the Quincy House open list requesting copper tubing and 30-gallon washtubs in the hopes of building a moonshine distillery in their bathroom. Their attempt at bootlegging fell through, but Payne found another way to bring 18th-century agrarian practices to Quincy Houe...
...system, inadequate communication and electrical infrastructure, and an obstructionist bureaucracy might make it hard for India's economy to match China's spectacular growth. Despite the high-profile growth of the tech sector, for example, agriculture still accounts for nearly a quarter of GDP, and the country's predominantly agrarian population remains at the mercy of the monsoon. In 2002, the rains were poor, and India's agriculture suffered; the economy grew only 4.3%. India's economic planners maintain that the economy is less dependent on the monsoon now and that mediocre growth is a thing of the past...
...year more than 26,000 asylum seekers and refugees came to the country - costing the government j590 million. As it has in the past, the SVP is making immigration (legal and otherwise) a hot-button issue. But this time around the party is breaking out of its traditional elderly, agrarian base to attract younger and more liberal voters - like Pierre-Alain Favre, a 42-year-old computer programmer from Geneva who has always voted for more moderate parties. "Every night I see African drug dealers on the streets and I'm getting sick of it," he says. "I want these...