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...would we want to build skyscrapers filled with lettuce when we've been farming on the ground for 10,000 years? Because as the world's population grows--from 6.8 billion now to as much as 9 billion by 2050--we could run out of productive soil and water. Most of the population growth will occur in cities that can't easily feed themselves. Add the fact that modern agriculture and everything associated with it--deforestation, chemical-laden fertilizers and carbon-emitting transportation--is a significant contributor to climate change, and suddenly vertical farming doesn't seem so magic beanstalk...
...where do we go from here? Pakistan must continue to extend its full cooperation to the Mumbai investigation, and make it clear that its soil cannot be a training ground and safe haven for terrorists. Pakistan’s recent raid and arrests at a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba training camp gives us reason to take heart. India must exercise extreme caution and constraint in its response and show a willingness to work with the Pakistani government during these troubled times. Diplomatic intimidation and flexing of military muscle will serve no productive end. Furthermore, Delhi must collaborate and provide...
...because it’s not like the solutions that they have right now that aren’t cost effective,” Sengeh says, noting that kerosene is prohibitively expensive. Microbial fuel cells can last for ten years, and can be easily replaced by changing the soil. The group plans to use a $200,000 grant from the World Bank to conduct an 18-month pilot in Namibia, beginning next fall. Sengeh says they hope to develop a final product by the end of that period. According to team member Zoë Sachs-Arellano...
...This perseverance and drive has carried the daughter of a United Nations economist—who took her first step on American soil when she arrived at Harvard in the early 1970s—through three decades on the upper echelon of global economics. And as a top official at the World Bank in this time of economic duress, the Harvard alumna with a reputation for her focus and passion is now working harder than ever...
Indian security analysts, meanwhile, were not only reticent but also skeptical of both the Pakistani authorities' ability and their willingness to crack the whip on the many terrorist groups operating on Pakistani soil. Mistrust of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) runs deep among Indian intelligence and security circles - far more than in the U.S. - particularly since the late 1980s, when the ISI was accused of aiding a fierce insurgency in India's border state of Punjab. Many believe that the ISI-Pakistani-army nexus holds the country in a vise, severely curtailing any civilian government's power to take...