Word: regionalization
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...group of at least 15 undergraduates recently launched a quarterly journal on Middle Eastern affairs, hoping to spur student dialogue about the region...
...yourself. This is Iran's advice to you. Leave the region.' MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, speaking to the U.S. government at an anti-American rally in the United Arab Emirates on May 13, after Vice President Dick Cheney's Middle East visit...
...crisis is worst in Vidarbha, an orange- and cotton-growing region in central India famed for its black soil and the fact that Mahatma Gandhi built an ashram and lived there for a time in the 1930s. Now Indians know it as their nation's rural suicide capital. According to Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, or Vidarbha People's Protest Forum, an activist group that keeps track of farmer suicides in the area and lobbies the government for help, more than 1,250 farmers committed suicide in Vidarbha's six central districts alone in 2006, up from...
...pushed banks to offer more farmers credit at reasonable rates. The government is also trying to encourage farmers to diversify into other crops and into dairy and poultry production. A little more than half the money in the rescue packages will go to irrigation projects that could transform the region in the long term but offer little relief in the near future-a bone of contention for many farmers who say they need government help...
...Harvard women will be there. The Crimson earned an automatic bid by capturing the Ivy League title when it defeated Penn back on May 5.The 64-team tournament opens with 16 groups of four playing double elimination tournaments across the country. The Crimson will compete in the Hempstead Regional that includes Albany, 7th overall seed Baylor, and host, Hofstra. The winner of the region will move on to the super-regional next weekend to compete for a spot in the Softball World Series. “We are excited to see how we face-up,” senior captain...