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...team has tried other soil and plant types in the past experiments...
There were a multitude of elements to put in place. A generator was needed for the security outpost. Blast walls and Hesco baskets - the ubiquitous wire and cloth fortifications filled with rocks and soil - were needed to protect the troops who would be stationed at the school. The local police chief had to be convinced to lend some of his officers for the operation. The plans for clearing the bombs and booby traps had to be specific and plausible...
...advocating water-conservation efforts. Chances are that the arrival of summer showers will give the land respite in the next month. But until then, Vice Minister of Water Resources, Liu Ning, confirmed less than two weeks ago, about 30,000 sq. mi. (78,000 sq km) of soil are too dry to bear crops, which has resulted in more than $3.5 billion in agricultural losses. Across the parched terrain, the government has been rationing drinking water, digging emergency wells and shooting clouds with silver iodide in an effort to stimulate rainfall. And the drought's effects on the Mekong River...
...Saturday for another ceremony along with a delegation of more than 80 Polish officials and relatives of the victims of the Katyn massacres. "I hope I get a visa," Kaczynski had joked when announcing the visit. As part of the ceremony, he was due to receive an urn of soil from the forests were the thousands of Polish officers had been executed with a bullet to the base of the neck...
...Foreign Minister - a sign of who still calls the shots in Islamabad. That may no longer be such a bad thing. Kayani's visit comes in the wake of two hard-fought campaigns by his troops against local militants and the capture of assorted Afghan Taliban leaders on Pakistani soil. The general is confident enough to demand the release of funds and weaponry held up by a skeptical Washington. Now he might get his wish...