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...Buchanan's America With regard to what makes us fellow Americans, conservative politician and pundit Pat Buchanan asked, "Is it simply citizenship? Or is it blood, soil, history and heroes?" [Aug. 28]. Perhaps he should ask the families of fallen soldiers with names like Ram?rez, Fern?ndez and Garc?a. Many of those heroes came from cities with names like Los Angeles, El Paso and Santa Fe. Buchanan seems to think he is waging a culture war when in fact he is fighting history?American history. Alvaro Gonzalez Miami...
West African scientists have made significant progress in that regard since the 1990s by creating high-yielding varieties of rice that are well adapted to the dryer conditions of upland regions. Dubbed NERICA (New Rice for Africa), the plants were created through conventional breeding of a high-yield Asian variety with a hardier African one--something that had been tried many times before without success...
...paid for? Absolutely not," he adds. "It's a quick and easy way to get people's attention, but it's becoming somewhat redundant. You need to use a celebrity very cleverly, or people are going to tune out. People don't hold these icons in such high regard anymore. Whoever's on American Idol or the MySpace.com kid next door, that's who's famous these days...
Political differences should not determine who speaks to a university. Those decisions ought to be made with regard to what contribution a speaker stands to make to the intellectual community. With Iran dominating front pages around the world because of its deadly dance with the United Nations and nuclear arms, Khatami surely stood ready to make such a contribution to Harvard...
...practical (who really gets rich from this?)--come especially thick from Evangelicals like Warren. Evangelicalism is more prominent and influential than ever before. Yet the movement, which has never had a robust theology of money, finds an aggressive philosophy advancing within its ranks that many of its leaders regard as simplistic, possibly heretical and certainly embarrassing...