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...crop yields, reduce the intensity of pesticide and fertilizer use, improve water productivity and promote conservation tillage that reduces erosion and sequesters carbon. Last year alone our agencies invested more than $1 billion in research, development and demonstration of next-generation-biofuels production from nonfood feedstocks, which remains the core U.S. strategy. Our government is committed to advancing technological solutions to promote and increase the use of clean, secure, abundant, affordable and domestic alternative solutions. Ed Schafer, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary, and Samuel W. Bodman, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

With the approval of four new courses for General Education credit last week, more half the classes in the Gen Ed curriculum now come from the current Core. On April 17, The General Education Standing Committee approved the additional courses—including Historical Studies A-13: “China, Tradition and Transformation”; Historical Studies B-40: “Pursuits of Happiness”; and Quantitative Reasoning 48: “Bits”—according to committee member Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08. In February...

Author: By Bora Fezga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After April 17 meeting, half of approved General Education courses come from current Core curriculum | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...parent company European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company announced this week its flagship plane, the A380, will cost five million dollars more starting next month, for it has always been quoted in American currency. In short, a strong euro reduces European exports, which are at the core of many continental economies like France’s and Italy?...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Stay the Course | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...Central Command is the core of the U.S. military's current operations - it includes both Afghanistan and Iraq - stretching from the Horn of Africa to Pakistan. Although its headquarters are at an Air Force base in Tampa, Fla., recent commanders have spent much of their time at their forward headquarters in Qatar. Petraeus will assume command late this summer or early fall, replacing Admiral William Fallon, who requested early retirement last month after he was portrayed in a magazine interview as the lone officer preventing a U.S. war with Iran. Petraeus's former deputy in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ray Odierno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Petraeus Promotion Means | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...Warner's hometown, South Bend, has a historically unionized, largely white, working-class population that would appear to match the profile of Clinton's core. However, the fact that this city of 106,000 is home to two universities - chiefly Notre Dame - could help Obama. "No one knows how this thing is going to go," says Russ Hanson, political science professor at Indiana University, in Bloomington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Stop for the Dems: Indiana | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

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