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...rest of the world. Soon Wambugu hopes to start raising those yields by introducing a transgenic sweet potato that is resistant to the feathery mottle virus. There really is no other option, explains Wambugu, who currently directs the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications in Nairobi. "You can't control the virus in the field, and you can't breed in resistance through conventional means...
DIED. DEAN FISCHER, 63, veteran TIME correspondent and State Department spokesman; of cancer; in Washington. Fischer, who reported hundreds of articles for the magazine, started out as a reporter for the Des Moines Register in 1960. After joining time in 1964, he served as Nairobi bureau chief, White House correspondent and Middle East bureau chief. In 1981 Secretary of State Alexander Haig appointed him Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, a post he held more than a year before returning to journalism...
Disturbed by shortages of firewood, the essential fuel for Kenya's poor, as well as growing soil erosion and deforestation, Wangari Maathai began a small tree-planting operation in Nairobi in the late 1970s. Composed largely of women, her Green Belt Movement quickly spread throughout Kenya and beyond. Then she turned to politics, including an unsuccessful run for President and protests against reckless development. When President Daniel arap Moi wanted to erect a 62-story office tower in Uhuru (Freedom) Park, a vital public space, her band of mothers and grandmothers forced the dictator to back down...
TIME's earlier efforts at this kind of global-community journalism have received terrific response. Thousands reacted to our Sierra Leone story, including a group that flew some amputees to the U.S. for treatment. And a wealthy businessman, after reading our AIDS-orphans story, written by Nairobi bureau chief Simon Robinson, plucked some of the children from the hellhole where they were living and relocated them to a house in suburban Harare, Zimbabwe. For people residing in the world's worst places, that kind of generous help is as close to a miracle as anything they could...
...America, who number around 700 million. Most of the tremendous growth is coming not in such historic mainstream denominations as Anglican and Roman Catholic but in newer, livelier, indigenous churches. "People find the old churches a bit slow," says Winfred Muthoni, an assistant in a popular Christian bookshop in Nairobi, Kenya. "People want to get excited for God. They want to feel free to worship...