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...metric tons of sorghum was blocked for more than 100 days in Mombasa, with no safe way to get it out, Kidane says. Violence returned to Burundi after a ceasefire deal failed, so WFP must postpone plans to stop feeding Burundian refugees in Tanzania. WFP is sometimes a target of violence too. Darfur rations were cut by nearly half in May because too many trucks had been hijacked. Distribution was suspended briefly in Karamoja last year after cattle rustlers ambushed a convoy and shot dead the lead driver. The trucks, returning from a delivery, were all empty...
Your article was absolutely on target. It is essential that the U.S. develop new sustainable sources of nonpolluting energy. You have made clear the interrelationships among the availability of that energy and international politics (and the need for the U.S. to operate without one hand tied behind its back), the environment and the world economy. A Manhattan Project?level effort is needed. Time is running out. Donald J. Loundy, CARLSBAD, CALIF...
...course, science is always making progress. You read a lot about these very special rodents, animals we call "transgenic animals." [That means] if you're studying diabetes, the mice have diabetes, so you can go right to specific disease targets in a much more expeditious way that you could in the old days. In the old days you just hoped they got diabetes. Also, as the scientific community is understanding more and more about the genome, whether it's the human genome or the fruit fly genome, they're better able to identify gene markers, to target them and start...
Your article was absolutely on target. It is essential that the U.S. develop new sustainable sources of nonpolluting energy. You have made clear the interrelationships among the availability of that energy and international politics (and the need for the U.S. to operate without one hand tied behind its back), the environment and the world economy. A Manhattan Project--level effort is needed. Time is running out. Donald J. Loundy, CARLSBAD, CALIF...
...done 'greenwashing' very well," says Richard Girard, a researcher at the Polaris Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Ottawa. "They shifted their image to one of a green and socially responsible organization, but they're not changing their operations." Specifically, he faults the firm for not setting a target date for its water-neutrality goal, and for not establishing water-efficiency requirements for its agricultural suppliers...