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...developing hardy seed varieties of regionally appropriate crops, creating markets for the distribution of those seeds and educating a new generation of African plant scientists. It's a back-to-basics approach that avoids gambling on shortcuts. But to be successful the new initiative--dubbed the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa--will very soon have to address two equally pressing issues: the need for widespread use of chemical fertilizers to replenish exhausted soil and some sort of system to ensure greater participation of women--who perform the bulk of the work on Africa's farms...
...happens to be one of those.” Phillips, who is also a member of the Resource Efficiency Program Task Force, said that the dual flush handles were installed on 508 units and cost an additional $15 per unit. While Phillips did not know the reason behind the green color, he speculated it was because green represents environmentally-friendly practices. “For the cost increase it makes good sense to do it because if a good percentage use it, we’re saving resources,” Phillips said. While Adams House was also...
...class for years now - had almost nothing to vote for. The party didn't even have any candidates running in two statewide races and two ward elections. Only 7.7% of D.C. Republicans turned out Tuesday, dragging down the overall figure (Democrats saw about 35% turnout, while the tiny Statehood Green Party got 10% of its 5,000 voters...
...lectures, which are full of pithy asides and sexy Briticisms. (Nota bene: to understand the jokes, you needn't do the reading.) If you feel compelled to read the novels, you'll find some jewels that most English concentrators have never heard of. Among the best are Henry Green's “Loving” and Muriel Spark's “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” Unfortunately, Wood spends almost a month on “Atonement” by Ian McEwan, which is taught in at least three English department courses...
...notes. Obviously this applies to all books, but even college texts, which get worked over heavily, have a shelf-life, so there's only so much annotation you do. This is not true of Bibles, which in many evangelical circles end up looking like Mondrian done in pink and green pastels...