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...lifts the agricultural peasantry into the middle class where they produce fewer, better educated children; it allows larger profits which results in better R&D and farming methods, better forecasting of which crops to plant to meet demand, improved ability to change crops when needed, and better and cheaper transport for harvests to market. If you truly want to end poverty, start by absorbing small landholders into large-scale business. Joanna Perr, MBABANE, SWAZILAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food for Thought | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...certain is that Brazil faces huge infrastructure challenges in the coming years. The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has promised to spend $14 billion preparing for the Olympics and billions more readying for the World Cup. But until now, the priorities were improving atrocious transport systems, providing adequate hotel accommodations and stemming the violence that makes Brazil one of the homicide capitals of the world. (See what becomes of Olympic stadiums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil Blackout Raises More Questions for the Olympics | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...advice on my spirit-crushing depression. Silly me, I was so disillusioned with life I didn’t even realize I had contracted H1N1 until they told me. I couldn’t express my gratitude at that point though, as they were sealing me into plastic for transport...

Author: By Zachariah P. Hughes | Title: A Quarantine Story | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Sunday’s opening celebration for The Laboratory will feature exhibitions by current Harvard undergraduates, ranging from a new way to transport water to a program that translates heart beats into music to a way of making electricity from bacteria in dirt...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Art and Science: A Work in Progress | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

When Michael P. Silvestri ’10 saw the difficulty women and children in third-world countries like Namibia had transporting and purifying water with existing resources, he and a team of students developed a new container that was both easy to transport and economically feasible...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Art and Science: A Work in Progress | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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