Word: mahre
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...Krista Mahr's article on rich states renting agricultural land in developing states presents a thorny question: Can the hungry be a provider to the well-fed? Let's take the case of the Philippines, my homeland. Most Filipino farmers are poor and neglected. The Department of Agrarian Reform can't even protect their rights against greedy hacienda owners. Without sufficient safeguards, food-security agreements might only aggravate the lot of farmers and their families from Sudan to Indonesia. Remember: the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Dennard Dacumos, Manila...
...real estate, are our most valuable assets. Sean Gregory writes about a new minimalist model for the shopping experience, and Bryan Walsh looks at how the suburbs are reimagining themselves now that the economy can no longer support the massive shopping centers that used to define them. Krista Mahr in Hong Kong reports on how the crunch is fueling a new kind of international trade: countries with money but little arable land are renting huge tracts from countries rich in soil but poor in cash. Alex Perry zeroes in on the unexpected star of the global economy: Africa...
...Unlike some fandroids, Ackerman actually got married. His wife Wendayne, four years older than Forry, translated SF novels by the German authors Karl Herbert Scheer, Kurt Mahr and Walter Ernsting. She died in 1990 and is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, Calif., under the marker "Wife of Mr. Science Fiction." On his MySpace page, Forry wrote: "My life companion, Wendayne (the only one in the world) Ackerman, as the aftermath of a mugging in Italy, died some years ago, but not before translating 150 sci-fi novels from French & German, moonlighting while teaching for 20 years at university...
DEFINITION Bur-muh n. Nation in Southeast Asia that in 1989 changed its official English name to Myanmar (Meye-ahn-mahr...
...obstacle to the successful founding of our company. On the contrary, Cenix BioScience would never have come into being were it not for the extraordinary assistance and support from the MPG and in particular from its technology transfer agency, Garching Innovation. The combined start-up expertise of Ulrich Mahr (Garching Innovation), Torsten Mummenbrauer (Garching Innovation) and Ivan Baines (Max Planck Institute-CBG, Dresden), together with the forward-looking and innovative attitude within the MPG toward spinning out companies, are the factors that really contributed to the successful launch of Cenix. Christophe Echeverri CEO/CSO, Cenix BioScience GmbH Dresden, Germany