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...Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), a high-profile effort to boost the production of small-scale farmers through better agricultural technology. Funded by the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations and chaired by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the group takes its name from earlier green revolutions in Latin America and Asia, where the introduction of hybrid seeds and chemical fertilizers is credited with rescuing hundreds of millions from starvation. (Read: "The Five Virtues of Kofi Annan...
...current recession has been deeper and longer than the past two. "It's a very different story today," says First Eagle's Jean-Marie Eveillard, one of the few managers to produce positive returns when stocks plunged earlier this decade. "The landscape is different, and the recovery, when it comes, probably won't be along the lines of what we have seen in the post--World War II period...
...descends from its decades-long, debt-fueled, free-spending high, Americans are finding ways to save more money. In March, the average person saved 4.2% of disposable income, compared with just 0.2% a year earlier. Thanks to a deep recession, our buy-it-now-and-buy-it-big culture is moving into a lower gear, at least temporarily...
...earlier update of this article incorrectly stated that Kirkland House Master Tom Conley said the victim was not a Harvard student. In fact, Conley only said that the victim was not a Kirkland resident...
...Japan's four earlier suspected swine flu cases came from travelers inbound from North America, but this new bout appears to be wholly domestic. Most of the cases involve teenagers - the first confirmed infected on Saturday were high school students on a volleyball team - but those sick with the new strain of flu now range from 5 years old to 60. "It circulated silently, without anybody thinking of it," says Peter Cordingley, spokesman for the WHO in Manila. "The virus is highly transmittable, and signs of it breaking out of a contained area into the greater community must be watched...