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...need for the vault grows even greater as industrial agriculture continues to narrow the genetic diversity of plants, focusing on select, high-producing crop varieties. Global warming will also create demand for a stockpile of seeds that may not be suited to today's growing conditions but could be just right for tomorrow's. "We'll need crop varieties for hotter, dryer, wetter and colder climates," says Fowler. Sometime in the future, the vault of last resort could end up more like...
...candidacy sputtered. His narrow loss Tuesday to John McCain in Florida was just the latest in a series of disappointments that began in Iowa and New Hampshire, two states where he had outspent his rivals and once led in the polls. His failures have many causes, which will be raked over by historians. But they also suggest a broader shift: Romney may be running to lead a Republican Party that no longer exists...
...Lawyers for the six convicted aid workers said they'd file for an appeal - but legal experts believe that given the narrow ambit left to the court under the judicial accords between France and Chad, they stand virtually no chance of receiving a more favorable ruling. In fact, French appeals courts are notorious for stiffening sentences in lower court rulings, meaning the Zoé's Ark crew could see they Chadian prison jolts lengthened - and then possibly compounded by eventual conviction in the case the French state brings against them...
...From Tarin Kowt, the provincial capital, it's easy to see why. To the north, three brown mountains rise steeply like the ramparts of a giant castle. Beyond them lies a sprawl of steep ridges and peaks riddled with caves and crisscrossed with narrow trails. Camp Holland, the ISAF's main base in the province, squats in the desert on the town's outskirts. It is home to 1,400 Dutch troops and about 700 Australians. The Dutch forces include a Provincial Reconstruction Team, an armored battle group, and special forces. The Australians have a 370-man Reconstruction Task Force...
...part because the political pendulum was swinging rightward from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, but also because the Democrats seemed to have lost confidence in their own ideas. They had lapsed into an intellectually sloppy identity politics, subdividing themselves by race, gender and sexual preference. They fixed on narrow-gauge programs rather than broad themes. All too often they sounded like Ginsu-knife salesmen on late-night cable television: "And if you buy our children's health-care plan, we'll throw in - absolutely free! - a $4,000 college-tuition tax credit. Plus, this special onetime offer: universal day care...