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...sustainable agriculture - such as organic bee-keeping techniques - and band together to form farming co-ops. COMACO agrees to buy their produce at a higher-than-normal price, and the organization markets the products to Zambian stores, under the brand name "It's Wild!" If villagers agree to join COMACO, they aren't allowed to poach, and they pledge to protect the land, eschewing slash-and-burn farming techniques. COMACO checks up on its members - villages that see elevated poaching rates, or evidence of erosion, earn visits from Lewis's staff. "If you do certain things, we'll provide certain...
...prevent future instances of plagiarism, Elsevier will require all of its editors to join the Committee on Publication Ethics, a forum that advises editors on issues of integrity. The initiative will be formally announced next week, according to the publisher’s director of relations Shira D. Tabachnikoff...
...going to defeat everybody out there. You have to turn them." And many of America's enemies were ripe for turning. Before the surge, elements of al-Qaeda in Anbar province were carrying out grisly atrocities against local Sunnis, including women and children, who refused to join the jihad against Americans. The Sunnis approached the Americans for help, and Petraeus was happy to oblige. The local uprising against al-Qaeda is known as the Anbar Awakening, and it gave the U.S. a model for turning local tribes, clans and whole neighborhoods against the insurgents...
...reason, Odierno reckons that al-Sadr's cease-fire is responsible for a 15%-to-20% reduction in attacks on U.S. forces over the past year. U.S. military officers are now in touch with their counterparts at all levels of al-Sadr's operation, trying to persuade them to join the peaceful coalition, as some Sunni tribes have done. But whether that invitation will be accepted?or how long the cease-fire will hold?is anyone's guess...
...European Union (EU).The EU must take a leading role in defusing the dispute. First, it should urge Kosovo to be patient in declaring its independence. Then the EU should guide Serbia and Kosovo, still as one country, toward separate membership in the union. Eventually, Serbia will join the EU, Kosovo will join the EU, and Kosovo will be released from Serbian rule—all on the same day. Only thus can Kosovo be both completely independent from Serbia and yet still united with it. Accession to the EU would be a boon for the mismatched pair. Their economies...