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...great success of the Green Revolution of the 1950s and '60s, which vastly increased global crop yields through intensive fertilizer use and irrigation. Bananas are one of the most important cash crops in the world, for example, yet Fowler notes that there are just six banana breeders on the planet...
...year. Pollard, though, makes the activity of people like Ryan Adams and Dan Bejar look part-time. Having released his last solo album on January 20th, Pollard, the former leader of 90s legends Guided By Voices, is back just a month later with “The Planets are Blasted,” the second album by his band Boston Spaceships.Pollard’s habit of writing and releasing songs in such a rapid manner could easily lead one to expect the quality of his output to suffer, as the value of each song is cheapened by the sheer...
...employees, and came under heavy fire for supposedly misjudging the needs of youth in the developing world from the get-go. Talking heads on all continents profess communities need fresh water and malaria nets before Skype and Wikipedia. After all, there are 2.5 billion people on the planet living on less than $2 per day. They need the bare necessities—and you can’t eat pixels...
...said he remembers when Harvard Square used to be densely populated with music stores. “Now it’s a veritable desert,” Browne said. Local record store owners attributed the decline to the economic recession and the digital availability of music. At Planet Records, which has operated for 25 years on JFK St., owner John Damroth said he has seen his business decline steadily in the last decade. Even after keeping prices as low as possible and offering a wide range of music, Damroth envisioned a bleak future. “We probably won?...
...fact, since the middle of last fall, Kennedy's group has held biweekly meetings that feel somewhat like a college class - albeit the most advanced seminar on health policy on the planet. There's a curriculum for each of the two-hour sessions; topics have ranged from benefits packages and employer mandates to tax treatment of health insurance, payment reform and prevention and wellness. Although they are about halfway through the agenda, participants say progress has already been made. The group agrees on broad principles like a focus on prevention, a commitment to cutting costs and universal coverage approached through...