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...million Varieties of seed--including rice, barley and fruit-bearing plants--that Norway plans to freeze in a Noah's Ark of crops to prevent their extinction in any future global cataclysm...
What does the report recommend? The Corps must dramatically strengthen backup systems, keep up with the latest scientific developments and do a better job of risk assessment to prevent another disaster...
Certainly in recent months, most of the violence has been Iraqi-on-Iraqi, with civilians being killed by Shi'ite death squads or Sunni insurgents and jihadis. U.S. forces often find themselves trying to prevent Iraqis from killing one another. On the same day that Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced that the government would launch an investigation into the 24 Haditha killings and called U.S. attacks against Iraqi civilians "a regular occurrence," at least 18 Iraqis died at the hands of their countrymen. The rate of sectarian killings has escalated sharply since the Feb. 22 bombing...
...used this opportunity to study together,” said another female.A 1956 Crimson opinion piece labeled the changes in parietals as a “curfew conspiracy.” House masters eventually revoked the 11 p.m. parietals extension during the football season, saying that the change would prevent drunkenness and vice. The same Crimson opinion piece alleged that “the Master’s real motive was to drive students to the dances and thereby make them more profitable rather than encouraging virtue.”But House Masters cited the need...
...soda and other sugar-filled drinks is a Band-Aid for a bigger problem. Although I understand how those drinks help contribute to the problems of obesity and Type 2 diabetes faced by our youth, we must not forget that physical education and sports programs, which also prevent obesity and diabetes, are being trimmed from inner-city school budgets every year. I commend the Clinton Foundation for its efforts, but I suggest that its campaign be extended to highlight the importance of the health-essential programs that are being eliminated from U.S. school budgets. Mawusi Khadija Watson Buffalo, New York...