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...still there, enriching the soil. "You couldn't help but notice it. There would be all this poor, grayish soil, and then, right next to it, a tract of black that was several meters deep," says Johannes Lehmann, a soil scientist who worked in Manaus, Brazil, in the late 1990s. After he left the Amazon in 2000 for a job at Cornell University, N.Y., Lehmann started wondering what would happen if farmers today could make their own terra preta. He has found one answer in a field trial in Kenya, where 45 farmers achieved twice the yield in their corn...
...Kurds have frequently warned that there may be civil war if they don't get their way; there will be if they do, say the Turkomans and Arabs. The closest the communities have come to battle was in late July: after a suicide bomber struck at a Kurdish demonstration, killing 25, Kurds turned their wrath on Turkomans, though the violence quickly subsided. Since then, a war of words has broken out. Arab politicians in Baghdad were enraged when the provincial government of Kurdistan struck deals with oil companies without consulting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government; this was seen...
...made her tape down her breasts with gaffer's tape. She writes about marriage to Paul Simon and sex with Chris Dodd and meeting Bob Dylan. When Dylan showed up at a party wearing sunglasses and a parka, Fisher said, "Thank God you wore that, Bob, because sometimes late at night here the sun gets really, really bright, and then it snows...
...March of 1956—just months before Edward M. Kennedy graduated from Harvard College—96 members of the United States House of Representatives ratified the Southern Manifesto, a document drafted by the late Senator Strom Thurmond that labeled the racial integration of Southern schools a “clear abuse of judicial power.” A glimpse at today’s newspapers, plastered as many of them are with pictures and coverage of America’s first black President-elect, reveals exactly how much has changed in the 52 intervening years. Much of that...
...looked at a map of downtown Mumbai and circled Leopold Café? It was a savvy choice. Crowded, even late at night, and no room inside to maneuver...