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...Sahara is likely to be very different from what would be successful in the Ethiopian highlands or the Congolese tropics. Rather than try to impose a 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Different Shades of Green in Africa | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...have an idea. It's like a romantic and comedic show with a little bit of action thrown in. That's the best broad definition I can give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for J.J. Abrams | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...executive Lloyd Braun had the idea to remake the premise of CBS's Survivor - people stuck on an island - as a drama. Lost became a gripping fantasy that had little more in common with the reality hit show than the coconut trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glee: A Chorus of Laughter | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

Murphy sets up the comedy by giving this big idea a humble setting: the down-and-out glee club of William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. The school's once champion show choir has fallen on hard times, overshadowed by the competitive-cheerleading squad (whose coach is played with Pattonesque swagger by Jane Lynch). Restless Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) volunteers to bring back the chorus of misfits, like Charlie Brown nursing the most pathetic Christmas tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glee: A Chorus of Laughter | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

That sort of doomsday rhetoric won't necessarily go down well with the White House. Iran's intentions worry the U.S. too, of course, but Obama and his advisers are expected to move briskly to an equally pressing matter: Netanyahu's refusal to back the idea of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the keystone of U.S. policy in the Middle East, and Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are demanding that Netanyahu sign on. Netanyahu has hinted that he does not oppose the creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Netanyahu: Taking a Turn Toward Pragmatism? | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

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