Word: grains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Robyn Hallam, 33, was a perfect candidate for the new, streamlined IVF. Unable to conceive naturally with her husband Tim, a grain farmer in Hopetoun, Australia, Robyn tried fertility drugs to no avail. As the couple prepared to undergo traditional IVF, they were offered Trounson's new approach. "We were told that there'd never been a baby born through this procedure," Robyn recalls. "We thought, 'What do we have to lose...
...rose in opposition to brown-soup or frothy-pink "academic" art, how its icebreaker was Manet's Le | Dejeuner sur l'Herbe at the Salon of 1863, and how it chucked out past art (history painting, the academic portrait) in the interest of unmediated vision. This needs a grain of salt, and the Met's show administers several pounds of it, in the form of a prelude gallery that sketches the main contents of the official Paris Salon of 1859, the year in which, most observers concurred, the once unquestioned supremacy of history painting faltered. Landscape was rising...
...Brown calculates, India will need to import 44 million tons of grain annually to help feed its 1.5 billion people. By the same year, an increasingly industrialized China will need to purchase 200 million tons of grain abroad for its 1.6 billion people, as much as is now exported by all the world's countries. The result will be a spike in food prices that will trigger "wholesale social disintegration" in Africa, Latin America and other poor regions. "China's scarcity will become the world's scarcity," Brown predicts...
Many agriculture experts challenge Brown's conclusions, noting that grain and meat production have been keeping pace with population growth for decades. But most do agree that not enough private or public money has been spent on research in food production or biotechnology. Vocal among them is Dennis Avery, director of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana. "The real question for today is whether American agriculture can fulfill its potential as one of America's premier growth industries in a world about to triple its demands on farming resources," he declares. "Few farmers...
...just take them with a grain of salt," adds Funk, who is a Crimson editor and a member of the editorial board of Lighthouse, an undergraduate publication which deals with women's issues...