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...more than 10 years I have been an agronomist and food-processing technologist in several African countries, India and Indonesia [Oct. 26]. I completely agree that Western countries, development organizations and the Food and Agriculture Organization have neglected small-scale farming in the developing world, destroying rural economies under a growing population (thanks to health programs, better drinking water, etc., where so much of the money went). This is the single most important reason why 50 years of development aid did not work in Africa. But the agricultural policy, the food-aid policy and the trade barriers of the European...
...brick, stone and concrete, but in the process of redefining itself. Guido Axmann came to Berlin from Oldenburg, near Bremen, and switched from being a doctor to running a consultancy on environmental issues. "[The city] has physical space, but also mental space. It allows you to develop," he says. (See a pictorial history of the Berlin Wall...
...anywhere else." Sun is still trying to figure out his own niche. He's been working with his sister on plans for a brand he's calling "Fashion for World Peace," though so far, it's just a logo and a promotional video. Watching him develop ideas is a professional business coach sent by the city to help Sun get his new brand off the ground. Berlin isn't rich - in fact it has a massive budget deficit - but it still spends lavishly on culture, including financing three separate opera houses. The city government is trying to encourage local start...
...being a Communist spy at the height of the McCarthy era and put under house arrest. He and his family returned to China in exchange for U.S. pilots captured during the Korean War. In China, Qian used his skills to promote and organize scientific bodies as well as develop the missile programs that laid the groundwork for China's first manned space mission in 2003. But he remained bitter over his treatment by the U.S. "It was the stupidest thing this country ever did," said former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball, according to Iris Chang's 1995 biography of Qian...
Taking an aggressive approach to the pandemic flu, the Chinese government in June asked 11 biotech companies to develop a pandemic H1N1 vaccine. Beijing-based Sinovac succeeded in developing the world's first approved swine flu shot. The company raced to conduct clinical trials and was the first to report that a single dose of vaccine, instead of the two doses that most flu experts believed would be necessary, was sufficient to protect against 2009 H1N1. In early September, China became the first country to begin swine flu inoculations...