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West African scientists have made significant progress in that regard since the 1990s by creating high-yielding varieties of rice that are well adapted to the dryer conditions of upland regions. Dubbed NERICA (New Rice for Africa), the plants were created through conventional breeding of a high-yield Asian variety with a hardier African one--something that had been tried many times before without success...
...have a semester’s worth of CUE evaluations to turn the class around as the 1a staff did. After incorporating student feedback, 1a became markedly more interesting in the Spring. Thus, there’s no telling what a year at the drawing board will yield for 1b. Considering that they’re above average for introductory science classes, and offer a kind of cross-pollination of disciplines that you don’t often get at Harvard, these classes come highly recommended for anyone interested in “real” science. N.B.: 1a will...
...averse take note. It’s often arbitrary whether you’ll get a good or bad draw (either the sophomore tutorial with a fantabulous tutorial leader or the junior tutorial you badly want to take), but the good can be very good and the bad can yield horrendous results. You can get an adviser who’s a professor, or someone who actually spends most of the semester in another state doing research. You may also get no advising worth speaking of, which, as compared to Ec or other large concentrations, may not be that different...
...early on. As the dusty rabble of Afghan fighters moved to the newly opened Guantnamo in early 2002 and the first al-Qaeda operative--the pint-size Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi--was picked up, debate raged inside the Administration as to what would produce the highest-quality "yield" from interrogation with the greatest speed. There was fear of a second-wave attack, after all, and U.S. intelligence was panicked. On one side was the FBI, which touted its 1990s experience interrogating al-Qaeda operatives--interrogation that led to numerous prosecutions for the first World Trade Center attack...
...Without urgent diplomatic efforts that yield tangible results to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians, "I don't think there will ever be a Palestinian state," he said. "By 2007, if we don't see something that reassures all of us - the international community, the Israelis, the Arabs and the Palestinians - then I think we are doomed to another decade or decades of violence between Israelis and Arabs, which affects everybody...