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...from their peak in the mid-1970s. Policymakers and aid workers turned their attention to the poor's other pressing needs, such as health care and education. Farming got starved of resources and investment. In 1979, 18% of official development aid worldwide was directed at agriculture; by 2004, that amount sank to 3.5%. "Agriculture lost its glitter," says the FAO's Stamoulis. "The world didn't think that food was a major issue. There was plenty of food, at low prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Land: The New Green Revolution | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...many children in older age to many different women, now men tend to have only a few children at a younger age with one wife. The drop in the number of older fathers has had a major effect on the rate of mutation and has at least reduced the amount of new diversity - the raw material of evolution. Darwin's machine has not stopped, but it surely has slowed greatly," Jones says. (See TIME's special report on the environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwin Lives! Modern Humans Are Still Evolving | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...sense is that eventually they should [digitize] if only to make it accessible for the very substantial fraction of the world reading public, including a fair amount of America, that won’t have ready access to the print version,” Buell says, referring particularly to universities in the People’s Republic of China as one example of a potential market which will likely not be able to capitalize on the information in the work because of minimal acquisition budgets. “There would be a case where some virtualization strategy would be well...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Turning Over an Old Page | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...create that universal health care is going to grow the deficit, Obama has wisely made this claim a tough sell by insisting that health-care reform be deficit neutral. Why not take something that Republicans currently are clamoring for, in spite of the fact that it costs a staggering amount of money, and force them to prove their fiscal-conservative bona fides? Surely, the Republicans will oppose any surtax and lose a lot of their deficit-hawk street cred in the process, while Obama, for better or worse, can be branded as “Mr. Deficit-Neutral...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: Operation Enduring Deficits | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...Waxman had pushed to shield biologics for no more than five years - the same amount of time that traditional pharmaceuticals get under the Hatch-Waxman law. President Obama proposed seven years as a compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Drug-Industry Lobbyists Won on Health-Care | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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