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...thirds of the folks who grow coffee in the world are poor, small-scale family farmers," Brody says. "They live in the mountains of Nicaragua, Indonesia and Tanzania where electricity, roads and schools exist in a very limited basis. They also don't have first hand knowledge of how coffee is traded in the world and how much people would pay for it in consumer cultures like Europe and United States...
...scientists spent 13 months in Tanzania studying olive baboons. Among the baboons studied, females with the largest bottoms reached puberty the earliest and gave birth to more offspring. These children also had a better chance of surviving...
Next to the 1000-page IPCC assessment, the last few weeks were also filled with media reports of anecdotal evidence--extreme weather events that are projected to become more frequent as overall temperatures rise. Most notably, Mt. Kilimanjaro's ice cap, which has towered for millennia over Kenya and Tanzania's plains, is now melting and is expected to disappear within 15 years. Kilimanjaro is not alone in losing its snows--glaciers from the Alps to the Andes will disappear at a frightening rate--but the Kilimanjaro ice cap has been a valuable source of water for the surrounding areas...
...Treki: The idea is not a new one. In 1963, the great leaders of Africa met in Accra to discuss uniting Africa. Some of them believed this unity should be achieved quickly, but others, like the late Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, thought it should be achieved gradually. Nyerere later told us he regretted that position, saying "We lost a lot of time...
...Kilimanjaro, which towers 19,340 feet above Tanzania's tropical rain forest, holds a special romance and mystery for countless tourists and writers - and its relatively easy grade allows thousands of visitors each year to experience the unique ascent from its equatorial base to its snow-covered zenith...