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African food systems are also highly local. Most food production is consumed on the farm, and the portion marketed does not travel far. This is because of high transport costs linked to a poor road system. Roughly 70 percent of all rural Africans live more than a 30-minute walk from the nearest all-weather road, so when seasonal rains are good, surplus production cannot be moved easily for sale in another district at a higher price. Even worse for these true Locavores, when the crops fail in a drought, food supplies from nearby surplus regions cannot be brought...
...Physical traits such as physique, intellectual traits such as IQ, and personality traits such as extroversion have been extensively examined by researchers, but with poor explanatory results. Tests have shown there is no leadership gene. While studies might find a certain trait to be significant, there always seems to be considerable evidence that fails to confirm that trait’s importance. Context is often more important than traits. The athletic child who is the natural leader on the playground may lose that dominant position when the group returns to a well structured classroom. For example, in January 1940, Winston...
...credibility and detract from more pressing issues such as responding to the budget cuts.Yet there are always lessons to be learned from mistakes. Students were pleased with the CEB’s choice for Pep Rally artist this year, popular DJ Girl Talk, but a combination of poor planning, a dangerously flimsy stage, and an unusually high student turnout prompted HUPD to prematurely cancel the concert. Fortunately, the CEB was able to redeem itself for its botched execution of the Girl Talk event by putting on an impressive Yardfest concert this spring. The CEB deserved praise for picking...
...rally organized by student leaders to voice displeasure with poor communication from the deans, message discipline was not the order of the day. Were we upset about not being able to eat hot breakfast during the week? Was our outrage directed at our beloved dining hall workers, who might have hours cut as a result of the changes? Or were we simply angry about the fact that we heard about all these changes during the artificially stressful reading period...
...Eta’s publication—which then-club President Timothy J. Keating ’85 called a “poor attempt at humor” in a public letter of apology addressed to Fox—though not a product of a final club, was seen as representative of the type of thinking promoted by the final club system in general...