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Rice dies after three days of being submerged in water. This could lead to a major crisis as global warming causes more monsoons and typhoons in Asia, where half the world's population relies on the grain as a main food source. The good news is that scientists at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines have discovered a gene that allows the plant to "hold its breath" for nearly two weeks...
...especially in the form of set-pieces and crosses, which have proved to be an Achilles heel for the Crimson’s defense. “Brown’s going to be working at that space,” said Hoff of his team’s main defensive weakness. “That’s the way they’re probably going to get goals if they get them.” Luckily for Harvard, that flaw is counterbalanced by a reliable Hahn in goal, as well as many key performers in the Crimson?...
...Second, the VA requests a “concise written description of the main tenets” of the belief system, as well as “information about the structure” of the organization. The VA should be blind regarding the specific structure and tenets of a religion. As Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote in Lemon v. Kurtzman, “This kind of state inspection and evaluation of the religious content of a religious organization is fraught with the sort of entanglement that the Constitution forbids.” Rather, the VA should adopt a methodology...
Just a dusty mile or so from where a fellow platoon leader was recently killed by a powerful roadside bomb, Army 1st. Lt. James Vansandt piles out of a Humvee and sets out with his Iraqi translator into the darkness toward the crowded main street of Musayyib, a ramshackle Shi'ite town set along the Euphrates River some 40 miles south of Baghdad. Robed men are gathered in clusters on benches and around tables brought out after the daily ritual of breaking the 12-hour Ramadan fast. As his platoon fans out into the shadows on both sides...
...success of the Sunni militias against al-Qaeda and Jaish al Islaimi on the west side of the river, where they say they have the last al-Qaeda cell in southern Iraq on the ropes, helped put a spotlight on Shi'ite extremists to the east, the battalion's main enemy in the region. It gives the Shi'ite volunteer groups a window of opportunity to take control of their own communities. "I think the Jammers were like, 'We've got 100% of their attention now,'" he said. "It keeps their heads down and limits what they...