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...have died in flooding made worse when officials were forced to open dams for fear they might burst. Some 1,500 relief camps have been set up for the estimated 2.5 million people who were displaced as the raging water destroyed entire villages, washing away roads, bridges, crops and livestock. (See pictures of India's 2008 floods...
...took charge, around the time of Kenya's presidential election in 2007, his men had waged a campaign of illegal killings - was fired and put in charge of the postal service. His deputy, meanwhile, was quite literally put out to pasture, with a new job at the Ministry of Livestock...
...Divinity, who brought her as part of an afternoon-long celebration of his retirement. In doing so, he revived a practice not observed since Edward Wigglesworth—the first to hold the Hollis professorship in 1722—and his son, who succeeded him, first brought their livestock out to graze. Cox retired this past June after 44 years at the Harvard Divinity School, where his position was the oldest endowed chair in the country, and where he established a reputation as one of the foremost theologians of his time. His first major book, “The Secular...
...Instead of attacking the people who eat the fattening food, they could focus their attention on the factors that drive people to fast food in the first place—food labeling, false advertising, a government in the hands of a strong agriculture lobby, or the heads of big livestock and produce operations, who endanger consumers with genetically modified and hormone-enhanced products.If PETA were really smart, they would attack the system that forces the impoverished to choose fast food. They attack the livestock industry by portraying the working-class employees as bloodthirsty psychopaths, while ignoring the larger, more systematic...
...Kars, which lies on the border, there is little of the bitter nationalism that racks the capital. Locals recall a once lively trade in livestock from Armenia and textiles from Turkey. Work on renovating the cross-border rail lines is due to begin soon. Restoration of Armenian monuments at the ancient site of Ani is underway. "Once trade, human interaction and dialogue begin, finding common ground on more complicated issues will become easier," says Aybars Gorgulu of the Istanbul think tank TESEV. It will take time for Turkey and Armenia to overcome decades of mutual distrust. But the announcement...