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...would raid my mother's kitchen garden and lion calls would wake us at night." In those years of his childhood, I was a regular visitor to that park, knew the wardens and, in addition, produced official game mapping for Kenya. There had not been an elephant within or near the Nairobi National Park area since the early days of its foundation many years before - the nearest elephant population being some sixty miles away down the Mombasa Road in the Sultan Hamud area. Duncan McCormack, Hamilton, New Zealand...
...Mandase believes that he might need a deeper well and electricity to run a pump - investments he could never afford on this own. In lieu of that, Mandase, with the local monsoon spotty, can only pin his hopes on divine intervention. In late July, Mandase visited a Hindu temple near his village and offered a coconut to the gods. He then split it, left half on the altar and took the other home to eat. The puja, or religious rite, is meant to bring rain. "All I need is water," Mandase says...
...infested village of Marathwakadi in Vidarbha, and aside from a free plow, the government's ample funds have yet to trickle his way. Sidam gets no subsidies for his seeds, no guaranteed rural work has been available in the area and no new water resources have been developed near his farm, nor did he get state help with his $350 debt. Government agricultural officials hardly ever visit the village, he says, and he appears uninformed about the new initiatives that might help him. He is still dependent on the cotton crop he grows on his small farm, supplemented...
...killed a homeless man on Church Street on Friday night in New Haven, near Yale...
...manufacturers have experienced setbacks growing the vaccine - instead of the 120 million doses the CDC had initially hoped to have by the end of October, the real number will likely be closer to 30 million. "Vaccine production is much less predictable than we wish," says Frieden. "We are nowhere near where we thought we'd be by now." (See a map of the spread of the H1N1 virus...