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...more among farmlands in the dense tropical areas of Southeast Asia and Central America, along with much of South America. The proportion is lower in sub-Saharan Africa - although Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement has helped plant more than 30 million trees for Africa's poor. The difference seems to come down mostly to support for tree-planting by governments or NGOs like Maathai's. In places where agroforestry is encouraged this way, trees are far likelier to bloom than in places where farmers are given no such guidance. (See TIME's special report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Farmland Grows, the Trees Fight Back | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...should not even have become an issue if the confidentiality had been respected," he said. "There was a leak of confidentiality at some point, and this lead to some insensitive reactions." Semenya has already overcome an incredible challenge by becoming a world champion. But as a result of the poor handling of what should have been a very private test, no matter the results, the most difficult stretch of her life may yet be ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Female Track Star a Man? No Simple Answer | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...amid the brouhaha of objections raised, several Charlesview residents lashed out at their neighbors for attempting to delay the move, thereby forcing them to remain in the aging apartments while the developers modify the proposal again. One community member attested to the poor living conditions, describing the use of tarp to direct rainwater leaking from the roof into buckets placed along the hallways...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Residents Clash Over Revised Charlesview Relocation | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

Undergraduate Council representative and Currier House resident George J.J. Hayward ’11, who adopted improved cell phone service in the Quad as a central component of his election campaign last year, collected over 300 messages from Quad residents about poor reception over the last academic year...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Temporary AT&T Antenna Installed To Better Quad Service | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...fires, there have been no substantial education initiatives or forestry work. They also blame land developers for setting fires to clear land, especially in the heavily populated areas near Athens. Greece bans building in forest areas but has no official record of which areas are protected, along with a poor record of enforcing the ban in areas devastated by fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As the Greek Fires Subside, Outrage Grows | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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