Word: burma
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...Kibwezi, farmers in these other countries have also experienced problems growing the plant. In India, for example, a test project at several agricultural colleges produced seed yields of only 200 grams per plant - a fifth the expected output of one kilogram of seeds per plant. (Read: "Biofuel Gone Bad: Burma's Atrophying Jatropha...
...imposed them as a check on Japanese imperialism in 1940, Ronald Reagan leveled them as a way to combat martial law in Poland, and a legion of leaders have used sanctions in recognition of the atrocities perpetuated in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim Jong Il's North Korea and Burma under the military junta...
...climate change. Breakneck growth and dilapidated infrastructure have already made flooding a fact of life in many cities. Now urban Asia must brace for sea-level rises, tidal surges, extreme weather and other climatic horrors. From ports in China and India to delta populations in Vietnam and Burma, this fast-developing region has most of our planet's urban dwellers - and its most vulnerable cities. Asia is not alone, however. From Mombasa to Miami, climate change imperils 3,351 cities lying in low-elevation coastal zones, says UN-HABITAT, the U.N. agency for human settlements. Places that once thrived because...
...troops. Do you think today's celebrities are equally motivated to help our servicemen? I don't think enough is being done by the artists of today. I don't think that they're going out there. I was away for nearly four months touring around India and Burma. Today they might fly out and do an odd concert or two, but they're not doing a stretch of entertaining and meeting the boys and mingling with them and talking to them, which is very important. The troops don't just want to be entertained. They want to talk...
...Read "Burma: Virginia Senator Jim Webb Visits Junta Leader...