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That sinking price makes a huge difference in West Africa, where more than 10 million people depend directly on cotton to pay for food, school fees and housing. The crop provides Burkina Faso and Mali with half of all their export earnings; in Benin it accounts for 75%. "If there is no cotton growing in Mali, Mali doesn't work," says Demba Kb, an adviser to that country's Minister of Agriculture...
...Committee has done a good job of laying out an argument for a broad distribution requirement,” Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote in an e-mail. “The success or failure of this new, much more open, system will depend on how it is implemented.”TRUSTING THE MARKETAccording to the report’s recommendations, students will be able to choose from a large number of departmental courses or extra-departmental “Courses in General Education” to fulfill their general education requirements. Students will...
Samuel Alito's rulings haven't always fallen under a strictly conservative banner. In some he has shown sympathy for individuals who depend on the goodwill of powerful institutions, and in others he has defended civil rights. His reasoning has often been very technical. A few cases worth noting...
...greatest concerns is the relationship between the city and its universities. Despite the cultural and economic contributions that Harvard offers its neighbors, Seidel says he believes that the University’s effect on the city is not beneficent. Even so, he says Cambridge and its universities depend on each other...
That cities in the world's largest country are thirsty for oil is no secret. But China's countryside, home to 900 million, has energy woes of its own--low tech, but no less important to the nation's development. Most rural Chinese households depend on coal braziers and open wood-fueled hearths for their cooking. That is why Yunnan province, nestled between Tibet and Burma in the country's southwest, boasts forests that are among the world's most biodiverse--and most imperiled. Consumption of wood for fuel in the area averages about 6 tons per family of four...