Word: harvester
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...Earth scientists have discovered a way to solve the planet's energy crisis: harvest an element called helium-3 from the Moon. Apparently this vast effort requires only one human: Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), who's nearing the end of a three-year contract working alone in a station on the lunar surface. All that time alone, with only a talking computer and some old TV shows as company, has made Sam edgy; he can't wait to be picked up and taken back to Earth, to his loving wife and child. His anxiety escalates to horror when he discovers...
...transition to large-scale, industrialized agriculture, AGRA is providing small-scale farmers with a variety of products for use in traditional planting. The idea, says Joe DeVries, director of AGRA's seed program, isn't to supplant existing practices, but to supplement them. (See pictures of Ethiopia's harvest of hunger...
Cholera is confined to mostly urban areas; in rural areas, hunger and HIV are wreaking havoc. "We have not had a decent harvest for years now," says a government official in the rural Chirumanzu district, about 250 km south of Harare. "A number of deaths of people starving have been recorded here." The official adds, "Had it not been for donor organizations, the situation could have gone out of hand. The other problem is that with the high prevalence of HIV in this country, hunger has to be fought. Those taking [anti-retroviral medications (ARVs)] need to have nutritious food...
...fact that we are using the ocean as a garbage can by dumping things we don't see - such as chemicals and heavy metals - into the environment. Orcas are having problems coping with these toxins, and it all comes back to harm us - including in the food that we harvest from the ocean. So in the end, let's be very selfish. It's not the issue of saving fish and marine mammals, it's about saving ourselves...
...them also come from politically well-connected families, though none with the name recognition of the Gandhis. The crowd waited under massive white awnings during the scorching midday heat to hear Gandhi at the rally, which was held during the April 14 Baisakh festival celebrating the spring harvest. He introduced each one of the candidates in turn, hailing them in his textbook Hindi as naujawan - the new young men who represent the future of the party. If they do well in this year's elections, Gandhi's effort to redefine the Congress Party will be vindicated...