Member 487India's green revolutionary is back in spotlight (Reuters)12-05-2008 14h48Reuters - Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one. Army Corps says Condition of many levees a mystery (AP)12-05-2008 18h05AP - Across America, earthen flood levees protect big cities and small towns, wealthy suburbs and rich farmland. But the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that oversees levees, lacks an inventory of thousands of them and has no idea of their condition, the corps' chief levee expert told The Associated Press. Heavy fighting breaks out in north Lebanon (AP)12-05-2008 21h42AP - Heavy fighting broke out Monday between government supporters and opponents in Lebanon's second-largest city, where the two sides battled with rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and mortars, security officials and paramedics said. AP IMPACT: Number of disabled veterans rising (AP)12-05-2008 16h57AP - Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come even as the total population of America's vets shrinks. Medical helicopter crash in Wis. kills doctor, nurse, pilot (AP)12-05-2008 11h28AP - A medical helicopter dropped off a patient and then crashed shortly after it took off on its return flight to Madison, killing the surgeon, nurse and pilot on board, officials said Sunday. Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear (AP)12-05-2008 02h07AP - Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business if you run a bike shop. Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers or buying new ones to cope with rising fuel prices, bicycle dealers say. Genetic sleuths unmask secrets of big tomatoes (Reuters)12-05-2008 02h47Reuters - The secret behind growing large tomatoes lies not in the fertilizer or the perfect soil conditions, but in just a few genetic changes that over time have resulted in tomatoes 1,000 times bigger than their wild ancestors, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. Debt woes drive thousands of Indian farmers to suicide (AP)12-05-2008 01h48AP - On the last night of his life, the farmer walked into his dusty fields, choked down pesticide and waited to die. Republican convention chief quits after Myanmar ties revealed (AFP)12-05-2008 01h28AFP - The coordinator of the Republicans' 2008 presidential convention has resigned after revelations that he was paid to bolster the dismal US image of Myanmar's military junta. High demand, price of rice good news to US farmers (AP)12-05-2008 06h21AP - Dipping its left wing, a canary-yellow biplane makes a sharp turn and dives over a flooded field, showering rice on the shallow water 15 feet below. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 3855 Member 3567 Member 2111 Member 1678 Member 2309 Member 531 Member 3056 Member 2215 Member 3213 Member 1456 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 | |
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