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...South Ossetia government official speaking on condition of anonymity admitted that Ossetians had started murdering the old people who had remained to protect houses, possessions and livestock. TIME has not been able to verify that claim. The Russian military, which invaded after Georgia tried to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia, has not allowed Western journalists to leave the buses that have been allowed through the destroyed areas. But Russian journalists have been given free access to the area and allege that ethnic Georgian property has been targeted. Explains Dmitri Steshin, a reporter for Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian daily...
...Earlier in the week, officials from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Services cleared the Georgian villages of old men and women who had stayed behind to protect property and livestock. They were brought to the Georgian city of Gori, which is still controlled by the Russian army. The grandmothers and grandfathers told of Ossetian irregulars from both north and south of the Russian border coming into their villages and threatening to kill them...
...Presbyterian church in the village of Remera, where elders spoke of needing milk for children. The team went back to the U.S., and Bornzin admits that "the idea festered" for two years, until a team member returned to Africa and e-mailed that "they really need [a] livestock program." So Bornzin raised $14,000 from 45 Saddleback members and sent it to Remera with a detailed plan for stocking the area's neediest farmers and for the equitable distribution of the resulting calves. The effort appears to be working, and this month another missionary is back, installing water-purification units...
...valuable farmland abuts the river and will be flooded by dams. The new residences for the Xiaoshaba residents looks more like a middle-income Hong Kong housing estate than a rural Chinese village. But despite the exterior improvements, villagers are upset that they can no longer raise livestock outside their homes. One former resident of the now-demolished village says his family lost valuable cropland and the payment offered by the government is not enough to compensate. Job growth due to hydropower work is unlikely, the resident says, because the dam builders rely on outside labor. "Building this...
...raised water beetles and bamboo worms--bugs have long been a part of a well-balanced meal. Insect lovers like Gordon argue that entomophagy--the scientific term for consuming insects--could also be a far greener way to get protein than eating chicken, cows or pigs. With the global livestock sector responsible for 18% of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions and grain prices reaching record highs, cheap, environmentally low-impact insects could be the food of the future--provided we can stomach them. "This is an idea that shouldn't just be ridiculed," says Paul Vantomme, an officer...