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...rebates. But if the economies of developing countries can be grown, then their people will eventually become the replacement consumers and will buy goods produced in Japan and other hard-hit manufacturing/exporting countries. This is why it is so important not to delay projects like DESERTEC and the Sahara Forest Project. Such projects have the capacity to provide the power, fresh water and food essential to allow developing economies to move from subsistence living. That they help Europe with green power, absorb CO2 by "greening" deserts and mitigate rising sea levels, is a bonus not to be ignored. They also...
...know it will be difficult in this way and difficult in that way. Every book has a different process. You think this person is going to get up and cross the room. That’s what I intend but sometimes, the room might be as long as the Sahara desert. 2. FM: As the Creative Writing thesis deadline approaches, what do you look for in a budding novelist?JK: I’m not really looking for anything. The ones who have been novelists who have succeeded had it in themselves. I was just the spatula. I don?...
After four years spent making the short walk between Eliot House and Harvard Yard each morning, Cristiana Strava ’09 will spend her next year trekking across the Sahara Desert with a semi-nomadic tribe in Morocco. Strava is one of the six seniors who received the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship for a year of post-graduate exploration of another culture. The six senior recipients, chosen from among 87 applicants, include Strava, Lauren E. Brants, Wilmarie Cidre, Nicholas A. Rizzo, Nora A. Sluzas, and Brittan Smith.Each recipient will receive $18,000 to travel abroad to a country...
Competition is intensifying. The Sahara is advancing steadily south, smothering soil with sand. Added to that - or perhaps explaining it - is global warming. In November 2006, the United Nations Climate Change Conference heard a warmer earth will put at risk the lives of 65 to 95 million Africans over the next quarter of a century, most of them in and around the Sahara. The U.N.'s predictions prompted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to declare Africa "the continent most vulnerable" to global warming...
Perhaps a visit to northeastern Chad would change their minds. As I drove out to the area in spring 2007, the first sign we were entering a dead zone was the carcass of a camel. Camels can go three weeks without water in the Sahara, so the heap of fur, hair and bleached bones was an ominous sight. We entered a mud-walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of giving the usual smiles and waves, the children ducked away. A few minutes later, we crested a rise in the road and were confronted by nine janjaweed horsemen, rifles over their shoulders...