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...World Food Program recently signed an agreement with the Zambian government to provide thousands of tons of wheat to the starving citizens of Zambia. Controversy over the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops into the Zambian agricultural sector had previously delayed the distribution of GM food aid to drought-stricken Zambia. The Zambian government’s first priority must be to preserve its citizens’ lives by distributing food to combat the African nation’s growing famine. In spite of concerns that GM food aid may harm the Zambian agricultural economy in the future...
...channel my OCD into repeatedly clicking the send/receive button on Outlook in anticipation of my package notification, I muse about how I might try to remedy this cable drought were I a mob boss from New Jersey rather than a lowly student journalist from Harvard. But then again, I’ll never know. I don’t have...
...west of Durango, in the Mesa Verde National Park, site of a fire in July, are the famous cliff dwellings of the Anasazi-or ancestral Puebloans, as they are now known-whose civilization flourished there until the end of the 13th century, when the combination of a 30-year drought, a population explosion and overuse of natural resources forced them...
...Plata project, which has been on the drawing board since 1968. It is still unclear whether Congress will appropriate the entire $350 million needed for the dam. Water flows toward money. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s pushed small farmers off the land and consolidated larger land holdings. The drought of today will force farmers like Gillen to sell off more of their land for housing subdivisions. The grass on those future lawns will probably be kept greener than his dying fields. -With reporting by Rita Healy/Marvel...
...least for the moment, the sudden emphasis on Iraq has thrown politicians off their game. At county fairs in Nebraska over the August recess, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel was stunned to get almost as many questions about war as demands for disaster assistance against the drought. In Maine, Senator Susan Collins says, she was hearing about Iraq as often as about jobs and the economy. And at a retirement community in a Maryland suburb, elderly voters gave Democratic House candidate Mark Shriver an earful on Iraq before bringing up Social Security and the cost of prescription drugs. "People are confused...