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Rice dies after three days of being submerged in water. This could lead to a major crisis as global warming causes more monsoons and typhoons in Asia, where half the world's population relies on the grain as a main food source. The good news is that scientists at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines have discovered a gene that allows the plant to "hold its breath" for nearly two weeks...
...last time there was a major Turner show in the U.S., 41 years ago, he was treated as a forerunner not only of the Impressionists but also of the Abstract Expressionists and color-field painters, of Mark Rothko and his pulsing fogs or Morris Louis and his washes of diluted pigment. But in recent years, scholars have been at pains to draw Turner back into the context of his times, to emphasize that he was eager to paint history and contemporary events and to look to the past as much as the future...
...property crime has dramatically decreased over the last several years,” Catalano said. According to Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson, an expert on community crime, Harvard might be a unique case among American colleges when it comes to crime. “Harvard is a major tourist destination and every day, thousands of visitors descend upon campus,” said Sampson. “What that means is that there are many more people at risk for crimes than just those who live here, and this extra population presents more danger for crime...
...Demoss's memo was just the latest effort in the system-wide Stop Rudy At All Costs campaign among social conservatives, who will host all the major candidates at the Values Voter Summit in Washington the weekend of October 19. On the same day that DeMoss made his views widely known about Romney, two other social conservatives, Gary Bauer, president of American Values, and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, met with reporters in Washington and made some positive comments about the Massachusetts governor - and less positive ones about former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, the social conservative some...
Pressure on Nur has escalated in recent weeks, with the first major international peace talks in 18 months on Darfur scheduled to open in Libya on October 27. The purpose of that meeting is to get all the parties to the conflict to agree to a cease-fire that would allow 26,000 U.N.-mandated African Union troops in to protect civilians and keep the peace...