Word: cropped
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...Moyo sit at an adjacent table. I beckoned to him, but, head down, he demurred. A man asked to share my table and introduced himself as a manager for the Christian relief organization World Vision. I asked him about this year's harvest. "There's zero," he said. "No crop. Millions of hungry people, and just our maize sacks to feed them...
...Pitcher of the Year, taking the ball for Harvard and Christian Staehely, who earned the preseason nod for the same honor this season, on the mound for the Tigers.After a few mediocre non-conference outings, Haviland proved that he is still the cream of the Ancient Eight pitching crop, turning in eight-plus innings and allowing three earned runs on eight hits. “It’s one you circle on your calendar anyway,” Haviland said, “because it’s been us or them for the Ivy League for the past...
...edge of environmental disaster. In Africa by 2020, between 75 and 250 million people are expected to suffer from increased water shortages resulting from climate change, and attempting to adapt could consume as much as 10% of the GDP of African nations. In poorly nourished Central and South Asia, crop yields could decrease 30% by 2050. "The poorest of the poor are going to be the worst hit," said IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri. "People who are poor are least able to adapt to climate change...
...paid for by their fathers' remittances, were able to advance up the socioeconomic ladder. But the jobs they took-many of them white-collar jobs at the heart of the Asian economic boom-robbed them of a family life, too. Today, their sons-the third generation and the present crop of fathers-are the product of two previous generations of absent dads. "The pattern of fatherlessness can be passed down," says Wong Suen Kwong, who says he started the Centre for Fathering because he was having trouble relating to his teenage daughters...
Biofuels, however, are the real growth science, particularly after President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, called for the U.S. to quintuple its production of biofuels, primarily ethanol. That was good news to American corn farmers, who produce the crop from which the overwhelming share of domestic ethanol is made. But the manufacture of corn ethanol is still inefficient: the process burns up almost as much energy as it produces...