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...Kenya isn't the only country that's gotten caught up in the excitement over jatropha. Last December, an Air New Zealand jet powered by a jatropha/kerosene blend made a successful test flight. China, Brazil and even Myanmar have promoted it heavily, sometimes forcing farmers to plant it. In India, jatropha has been planted on hundreds of thousands of acres of land. But, like the farmers in Kibwezi, farmers in these other countries have also experienced problems growing the plant. In India, for example, a test project at several agricultural colleges produced seed yields of only 200 grams per plant...
...more than that." Los Angeles prosecutors have confirmed that they will file an extradition warrant to enforce Polanski's return and they have 40 days to prepare it. Before the arrest, Levenson thought the courts would have been lenient: "I didn't get the impression that [Polanski] would have gotten slammed from the [Espinoza] court if he had voluntarily come back, but having been picked up the way he is I don't know what will happen. Whether the courts are going to be that generous now is unclear...
This whole vampires-vs.-zombies debate - about which monster is more vital to the pop-culture zeitgeist - has lately escalated to nuclear proportions. Both sides have gotten shriller and more dogmatic, as if they were wrangling over a public option in health-care reform or whether it's O.K. to tweet during sex. As someone who's amped up the decibel level on the creature-features subject (see my review of Thirst), I now believe the warring parties need to find some small patch of common ground. So can we agree on just one thing? A vampire movie (or novel...
...under pressure or because of questions regarding the Merrill deal. I will simply say that this was my decision, and mine alone." It is also abrupt. Just months ago, Lewis told Congress he intended to stay on as head of Bank of America until all the assistance it had gotten from the government to survive the financial crisis had been repaid. It seems unlikely that Bank of America will be able to pay back the government $45 billion anytime soon...
...though many women attended from participating organizations, Bryant said she wished the event had gotten higher attendance from those outside the student groups...