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...sometimes something as simple as a farm pond--which collects rainwater to be used for emergency irrigation in a dry spell--can make the difference between a bountiful crop and a famine. The world has already committed to establishing a Climate Adaptation Fund to help poor regions climate-proof vital economic activities such as food production and health care but has not yet acted upon the promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to End the Global Food Shortage | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...were cut this month after bandits attacked trucks delivering them and killed the drivers. But the very last service that the WFP would cut, Sheeran says, is in rations for pregnant and nursing mothers and for toddlers. "If children under two go even for a number of months without vital nutrition, this will be with them for a lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Aid Agency Feels the Crunch | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...Duke University, one of the show's plain lessons is that during Philip's reign, Spanish painters perfected the means of bringing recognizable human beings into their art. Spain may have been a center of Catholic piety, its eyes always fastened on heaven, but its paintings were full of vital, supple people made of real flesh and blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spanish Painters Bring Heaven to Boston Museum | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...sought to represent the history of East-Central Europe. After screening several of his films last weekend at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA), the Hungarian filmmaker discussed his relationship to his movies and how the audience reacts to the questions raised by his films. Personal experience has been vital in driving Forgács to make his movies. He spent 39 years living behind the Iron Curtain and, in the 1990s, was deeply affected by the massacres that took place in the former Yugoslavia, just 200 miles south of his home in Budapest. His experiences with violence and persecution made...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Forgács Shows Human Side of Violent History | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...River Authority, also had some contact with the FLDS leadership, especially when they ran afoul of Texas environmental rules. They were dumping raw sewage into one of the wide "draws" - the dry stream beds that can suddenly fill in heavy rains, sending water downstream to the Colorado River, a vital source for agriculture and recreation. The FLDS hired a Dallas engineer to design a sewage plant for them, but they wouldn't allow him on the land, Nikolauk said, so an arrangement was made to haul sewage to the city plant. They always paid their bills - in cash. "I established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Polygamists Came to Town | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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