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...such as cows, buffalo, goats, sheep, horses and mules are indispensable to India's rural economy - whether the animals are yoked to plow land, raised for milk and manure or harnessed to pull carts to move goods and people. The Ministry of Agriculture estimates that livestock contribute 5.3% to total GDP, up from 4.8% during 1980-81. But, says K.K. Singhal, head of dairy cattle nutrition at the National Dairy Research Institute in Karnal in northern India, "while livestock plays a crucial role in the economy, global warming is becoming a huge worry. We're trying to find indigenous solutions...
...facilitate an intellectual community—as President Lowell envisioned more than seven decades ago—would be to re-integrate academic and residential life.“Build some nice classrooms in the Houses with that $1 billion,” he said, alluding to the total cost of House renewal—a project to renovate the 12 Houses based on the proposals of the House Renewal Report. No one wants “the SCR to be a room associated with all the old geezers that used to come and drink by themselves...
...estimated combined total of around 15% of the vote taken by Muslim parties is a historical low - it was over more than double that just five years ago. Rising to the fourth position was the Prosperous Justice Party, or PKS, the only Muslim-oriented party to make a strong showing, however slight - the party took 7.7% compared to 7.3% in 2004. Two smaller Muslim parties in the current parliament failed to even reach the threshold of 2.5% of the national vote. "Clearly, the people are not looking for parties based on religion," suggests Masdar Hilmy, a lecturer at the State...
...larger than what Aso ordered up earlier this week and the third stimulus plan he has proposed since he took office last September. The latest package amounts to record spending for the world's second-largest economy - about 3% of GPP - and, if passed by lawmakers, will bring total fiscal spending during the Aso administration to about $268 billion...
...brief, stimulus-driven spike, the economy will resume its downward track later in the year. Inevitably, growth will return. But Wood says a second downturn could be perilous and deep if current government measures artificially and temporarily prop up marginal manufacturers that otherwise would go bust (China's total production capacity exceeds domestic demand by a factor of 10), and if tens of billions of dollars in loans now being made on Beijing's command...