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Among the problems that continue to bedevil Africa are war, inadequate transportation, and shortages of seed, fertilizer and plow animals. Says Robert McCloskey, external-affairs counselor for Catholic Relief Services: "The situation will remain fairly desperate over the coming year. The harvest is better, but the number of people in need will remain high." Another problem is that little has been done to make African agriculture more resilient. Few of the drought-prone countries have grain reserves, and a lack of rain next year could easily wipe out this year's gains. "The emphasis is still on feeding the person...
...Sudanese needed 1.4 million tons of food aid this year, but a bumper harvest in the country's fertile east has halved the requirements for 1986. In the country's inaccessible western provinces of Darfur and Kordofan, however, famine still afflicts hundreds of thousands. Farm families ate their seed and slaughtered their oxen just to stay alive. When the rains came, they had nothing to plant. Because roads in the area were washed out by the summer rains, relief groups had to organize costly flights to reach the famine victims...
...like the staging area for the world's largest order of French fries. But no, it was merely one more odd happening in the life of Baseball Legend Yogi Berra, who last week wound up with a ton of taters on the lawn of his Montclair, N.J., home. The seed for Berra's bumper harvest was planted last summer at a celebrity golf tournament near Grand Forks, N. Dak. Berra reportedly asked what folks around those parts did for a living and was told that they grew potatoes. To which Berra replied, "I didn't think they'd grow enough...
...urgency to shift to e-health was the joint press conference held in Washington last week by Senators Hillary Clinton and Bill Frist, two potential presidential candidates who otherwise rarely get near enough to pass a communicable disease. They've got together, however, to introduce legislation that would provide seed money for local health networks and eliminate the biggest hurdle to beaming medical records to where they are needed: the lack of interoperability among the myriad systems now in use. Medical record keeping in the U.S. is in the "Dark Ages," Clinton complained. "We need to have the information easily...
...officials thought they had convinced Vietnam's government to call off human testing on its vaccine and develop a new one based on an approved virus seed provided by the WHO. But two top Vietnamese scientists tell TIME they will forge ahead with their own strain. "Nothing has changed," says Dr. Nguyen Thu Van, the head of the vaccine team. "We will test our vaccine on humans as planned before." There's little anyone can do: the WHO has no enforcement powers. "The danger is very unlikely," admits Michael Perdue, a WHO virus expert who has consulted with Vietnam...