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...students are able-bodied men and women; no one will die if WFP cuts this service. Already the agency has planned an end to school feeding for 500,000 kids in Uganda's camps. The picture is the same across the world. School feeding was canceled in Cambodia for a month this spring because of a shortage of funds. In Sri Lanka, a food-for-work scheme to maintain irrigation systems was axed for the same reason. "In a sense we're mortgaging the long term to pay for the short term," says John Aylieff, WFP's global head...
...Journey's die-hard fans - and there are plenty - have embraced Pineda with open arms. When Nell, who did not want to reveal her real name, started an Arnel Pineda fan site in December, the Florida-based web developer says angry Journey fans left death threats on her answering machine. The band's traditional fanbase is mostly white and American, and some are upset that Pineda is neither. "Journey is supposed to be an all-American band," one fan wrote in an online forum...
...come, fertilizer from Midwestern farms drains into the Mississippi river system and down to Louisiana, where the agricultural sewage pours into the Gulf of Mexico. Just as fertilizer speeds the growth of plants on land, the chemicals enhance the rapid development of algae in the water. When the algae die and decompose, the process sucks all the oxygen out of the surrounding waters, leading to a hypoxic event - better known as a "dead zone." The water becomes as barren as the surface of the moon. What sea life that can flee the zone does so; what can't, dies...
...French capitulation and Italy's draw sets up a do or die repeat of the 2006 World Cup final between them next Tuesday - certainly without Zinedine Zindane and likely without his foil Marco Materazzi - while the Romanians take on the Dutch, who are through to the next round. A couple of draws and Romania advances...
...would normally be in the fields this time of year. Butch Fleming, who owns the town's Ag & Industrial Supply, gestures at his empty store, which he says is usually packed with customers. "Farmers don't know what they're going to do - you don't just let orchards die," he says, adding that business in his store is down at least 25% from last year because people are afraid to invest in equipment. Fleming has had to lay off all of his full-time employees. Down the street, Jack Minnite, owner of Jack's Prime Time restaurant, says...