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...inland waterways can barely handle the nitrogen fertilizer we're already using in order to grow record yields of corn and other crops. Truly ramping up biofuel production - unless it can be done in a way that uses much less fertilizer, perhaps with experimental techniques that harness plant waste matter instead of food crops - might overwhelm that system. "We have to be very careful about biofuels in terms of what kind of crops we grow and where we grow them," says Mulholland. "The great expansion of corn could be a real problem." It would be a poor tradeoff...
...carelessly filled construction sandbags with precious artifacts, and dug trenches - one of them 560 ft. (170 m) long - through archaeological deposits. All of this may rob the world of Babylon's final treasures, but, as the Louvre exhibition attests, the civilization will live on - in myth, if not in matter...
While arranging the itinerary will be complex enough, there is also the matter of dealing with the Pontiff's philosophical fascination with America. Glendon said the Pope is "intrigued" by the U.S. model for managing the church-state divide, which contrasts with the contemporary European tendency to avoid public professions of faith. "We are a nation that has traditionally valued the role of faith in sustaining the democratic experiment," she said. "Culture comes before politics... and religion is at the heart of culture." Though the Vatican was staunchly opposed to the war in Iraq, Glendon arrives largely after the fact...
...main student opposition group, the former Office to Foster Unity, whose name now translates into ?Islamic Iran?s Organization of the Educated Ones," had declared that neither participation nor a boycott would make any difference, contending, "The elections have been engineered in a way that it doesn't matter how many people participate. Either way, more conservative members will enter parliament...
...While the reformists see this majlis election as a matter of life and death for their own political movement, others see it as a test of popularity for Ahmadinejad and the conservatives. Which is why the president has been making visits to the provinces and smaller towns seeking votes for conservatives...