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...Rice, Condoleezza •White House discussions about letting the CIA use coercive methods like waterboarding acknowledged...
...York, Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, said his country's forces had fired only warning flares at the choppers. "Sometimes the border is so mixed that they don't realize they have crossed the border," he told reporters before a session with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. But the disquieting clash comes as U.S. forces have stepped up attacks on safe havens just inside Pakistan that have been used by militants to stage attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Just this week, Pakistan's army claimed to have found the wreckage of a U.S drone...
...Andasibe, a former logging village that is now home to a burgeoning ecotourism trade. On the winding road we see the result of centuries of tavy, traditional slash-and-burn agriculture. The verdant forests that once covered much of Madagascar have been burnt or torn down, replaced by muddy rice paddies and secondary shrubs. This loss of habitat is the primary driver of extinction on Madagascar. The trees support a web of life, from the hefty indri to dazzlingly tiny frogs that fit on your pinky, but deforestation in Madagascar is so severe that the island's soil, unmoored...
...would take ground veal and ground pork and mix it up with a bunch of spices, and then take a Popsicle stick and put it inside a little ball of the meat. Then you bake them. It was like a veal-and-pork hamburger rolled in ground-up Rice Krispies. It was delightful...
...farmers in poor countries. When a crisis hits, as it did in Ethiopia this summer, the WFP typically asks governments to donate millions in emergency funds to feed people. That help comes either in food supplies or in cash, which the organization then uses to buy huge quantities of rice, maize and other staples from large-scale distributors. Aside from disasters like famines or earthquakes, the WFP also regularly feeds many poor people, including millions of children in school feeding programs; it estimates it will feed about 90 million people in some 80 countries this year. Yet despite its giant...