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...efforts of breeders have failed to improve greatly the disease resistance of the potato, which is the world's most chemically dependent crop - the global cost of fungicides alone stands at over $2 billion a year. And although the potato may, as Reader puts it, be "the best-all round bundle of nutrition known," diet gurus regularly denounce it for raising blood sugar levels. Its record for lifting people out of poverty is patchy at best. "It is very good at feeding hungry people, but not so good at improving their economic status," is Reader's stark conclusion...
...Spin me Right Round, Baby...
...Harvard holds on, Crimson sophomore Anna McDonald will have scored the winning goal in Harvard's Beanpot game last season and assisted the winning goal in the Crimson's final Beanpot game this year. The catch: last season McDonald scored the winning goal in Harvard's 4-3 first round triple-overtime loss to BC, where she was a freshman for the Eagles...
...men’s co-captain Brian Holmquest. The rest of the team responded to that surge of energy, as sophomore Bobby Kenney and senior Haibo Lu finished the 1000 meter in a 13th place time of 2:29.71 and a 26th place time of 2:32.35, respectively, to round out the top-30 finishers in the track events. The men saw more success in the field events, even though the overcrowded field made warming up for field events “problematic,” according to Holmquest. Freshman Sean Gil finished ninth in the pole vault, clearing...
Satterfield is underrating the Mahdi Army's boss. I met Moqtada al-Sadr in November 2003 at his office down a narrow alleyway in Najaf. We sat on pillows on the floor and he answered my questions with short, perfunctory statements. Barely 30, he had a round face, broad shoulders and a habit of glaring at guests beneath his thick, black eyebrows. He came across as menacing yet dull. At the time, he was holding massive Friday-afternoon prayer rallies that he populated with poor workers bused in from the slums of Sadr City in Baghdad 100 miles...