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...Guifu's farmland is still above water, and for that he can thank China's environmental movement. For years power companies have longed to dam the Nu River, which flows flat and olive drab below the fields where Yu and his family earn $1,200 a year growing corn, rice and strawberries. So far they haven't succeeded. "That river hasn't changed in my lifetime," says Yu, 50, as he rolls a cigarette and squishes his bare feet in a soft embankment. "But I don?t know what will happen next...
...Huadian power company announced plans to build 13 dams along the main stem of the Nu. That prompted stiff opposition from international and domestic green groups. In April 2004, Premier Wen Jiabao put the plans on hold and ordered further assessment of the project. For China's nascent environmental movement, it was a rare and welcome success. Not only did the Nu win a reprieve, but the "scientific development" ideology of Wen and President Hu Jintao - which emphasizes sustainable development and social welfare - seem to mean that more light would shine on the murky decision-making that accompanies huge infrastructure...
...heels and call the whole thing a yanqui-led conspiracy, however, Chavez on Sunday urged the FARC to end its 44-year-old guerrilla campaign, even declaring that the kind of Marxist insurgency he once championed has become a thing of the past. The FARC's armed movement, he said, is "out of place" in today's Latin America...
Most of us go through life without thinking much about our mitochondria - the small power producers within our cells. We remember them, if at all, as blobs in cell diagrams from biology class. But, by controlling cell differentiation, movement, death and growth, they are crucial to keeping us alive. And in the surreal, over-the-top and often unintentionally humorous biomedical horror Parasite Eve, Japanese novelist Hideaki Sena depicts them as sentient beings - so indignant over our indifference that they want to wipe us out and take over the world. Of course the notion is far-fetched, but the endosymbiotic...
...voter Hillary Clinton's campaign was counting on. Women a generation older would be safely in their camp. Younger women would be susceptible to Obamamania. Clinton's team thought that those in Klobuchar's demographic--professional, well-educated women who came of age during the modern women's movement--would be moved by the very real opportunity to put one of their own in the White House...