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...alleviate the famine currently plaguing Zambia and other African nations. The food has been languishing in warehouses for weeks as diplomats wrangle over whether to allow GM crops into Zambia, given the possibility for cross-fertilization and the ensuing loss of European export markets. Meanwhile, the toll of Zambian lives claimed by starvation continues to mount...
...mount an effective challenge. For sure, there will be no immediate dramatic developments when Article 23 goes into law, any more than there were after July 1, 1997. Beijing knows the value of biding its time, and of letting the gradual erosion of the spirit of freedom take its toll...
...bells of Memorial Church began to toll at 3 p.m. yesterday, Associate Minister of Memorial Church Dorothy A. Austin remembered a man who considered Harvard his extended family and undergradates his children. She said he wanted every student to know how to “rustle up a meal,” so he started a program called Cooking for the Culinarily Challenged, designed to teach seniors how to cook...
...government refused to count the number of civilian deaths resulting from the bombing of Afghanistan, but estimates range from 600 to 3,800. The number of lives gambled when famine threatened Afghan refugees and bombing prevented the flow of aid was many times that. The massive and foreseeable human toll of the war is clear; yet we question whether that toll was ever taken seriously by policymakers who may have been concerned with only the suffering closer to home...
...bells will toll throughout the city in memory of the collapse of the North Tower...