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Phantom farmers get some of their strongest support from their bona fide counterparts. Last month real farmers helped quash legislation aimed at closing loopholes in Florida's greenbelt law, in part because tighter rules could impede their ability to sell their land--to developers...
...faced with a firm reaction on the part of Egypt, even if that action should lead to war." It's easy to understand Egypt's motives: the Nile is a lifeline for the country's 74 million people, over 90% of whom live along a thin strip of fertile land that hugs the river's banks. The Nile also feeds a vast network of Egyptian irrigation canals that nourish the plots of peasant farmers such as Mohammed Sorour, 43, father of seven. "All the time, we have water," smiles Sorour, who plants molokhiyya, a leafy vegetable Egyptians cook into...
...psychological walls" is to reshape the landscape by replacing towers with human-size structures interspersed with open space. It's a formula that worked for him in the 1990s, when, as mayor of the job-starved and crime-ridden city of Valenciennes, he tackled the projects and freed up land for social housing in the city center. Expanded to a national scale, Borloo's plan originally identified 500,000 complexes - housing around 2 million residents - for renovation or reconstruction. To help meet that target, Borloo has boosted new construction rates in all sectors across France from around 50,000 units...
...food supplies we make,” causing world-wide famine and the death of “hundreds of millions of people” annually from starvation. Oops—in the subsequent 35 years, increased agricultural productivity exceeded population growth and the total amount of cultivated land barely increased...
THURSDAY Peace, land, bread! Bring your pre-frosh to the Seneca’s annual Red Party at the Roxy. $12 in advance; $15 and a copy of the Communist Manifesto at the door. FRIDAY What’s a great way to lure incoming students to your oh-so-social school? How about no parties on Friday because of the LSATs/MCATs? Instead, check out the Lockdown at Hoffa’s for 7 bucks. Speaking of pre-frosh, legal age in Boston is still 18, cradle-robber. SATURDAY FM still doesn’t know what jollies...