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'Green Revolution' Founder Borlaug Dead at 95
Norman Borlaug, who is credited with starting the "green revolution" and saving 1 billion lives, died today in Dallas from complications of cancer, the Dallas Morning News reports. He was 95. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for agricultural...
Tags: Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, Dead, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Award, Dallas, Texas, Starvation, Poor, Hunger
He dared to talk about hunger
He is a 48-year old Cuban named Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos who dared to talk to the media about hunger in Cuba. He has been branded as a ‘social danger’ and sentenced to imprisonment for two years. He cannot appeal against the sentence and...
Tags: urban music, hunger, social danger
Cuban to be jailed for complaining about food shortage
Havana :: Cuba | about 1 month ago
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The sentence may not be appealed and Gonzalez, known as "Panfilo", will spend his two years behind bars in the Toledo 2 prison, located on the outskirts of Havana. The incident occurred in July, when an evidently intoxicated Panfilo interrupted the taping...
Tags: hunger, urban music, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos, Cuban
How an Unexpected Friendship With Pakistan Changed My View About War
What Every American Needs To Know About Pakistan By Asher Kade Close you eyes for a moment. Now describe what you envision as soon as I say 'Pakistan'. Head wraps? Burkhas? Mosques? Crowded open markets? War? Jihad? Terrorism? Is there anything...
Tags: poverty, illiteracy, Obama Administration, electricity outages, upper-middle class of Pakistani society, education, Karachi, Suzuki car, Islam, Muslim, Urdu language, India, marriage, divorce, Cricket, blogging, tabel-tennis, Eid-ul-Azha, Eid-ul-fitr, biryani, daal and chawal, curries, roti, kebabs, Sindh, marketing executive, textiles, war propaganda, mosques, head wraps, jihad, markets, war, festival, sheer, sacrifice of Abraham, hobbies, Pakistan Independence Day, ethnicity and religion, family home, developed nation, energy crisis, medical care, hunger, Warziristan, politicians, American forces, elections, regrets, Taliban, Afghanistan, Pakistan, accomplishments, false myths, Middle Easterns, God, peace, USA, Muslims, American policy makers, Americans, extremism, terrorists
Hunger in the US Heartland: Reflections from our Food Pantry
The US Department of Ag's figures in May broke a record: 34.4 million people used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program of aid to low-income people. Now one out of every nine Americans qualifies for "food stamps." That's an increase of...
Tags: River City Food Bank, CCC Food Pantry, United States Department of Agriculture, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, food stamps, US economy, poverty, hunger
Scientists Help Put An End To Hunger...
One of the worst problems that rice growers have had to deal with is flooding from the monsoons. The water gets so deep that 40% of the crop is destroyed by “drowning" the rice, which virtually wipes out any profit they would make…...
Tags: Rice, Genetic Engineering, Snorkels, Hunger
Violent End to a Violent Life: Our Neighborhood Nightmare
A dramatic sequence of events Friday took one life and damaged many others in our Iowa neighborhood. A haunting thought remains: "Could this be prevented?" My husband was one of the last people to talk with Steven Mallory. Steven...
Tags: homelessness, hunger, mental illness, tazers, Steven Mallory, Jim Weakley, Clif Anderson, Mississippi River, Davenport IA, East Moline IL, social work, volunteering, domestic violence, prison reform, Centennial Bridge
Unparalleled Generosity at a Memorable Meal
Sitting alone at a restaurant table for four, I felt isolated enough. The frightening realization that I couldn't communicate in Guatemala only sharpened the feeling. My husband had established me at a language school the day before and...
Tags: hunger, Guatemala, language school, indigenous, culture shock
Change we really need (part II)
The Repentance "And O my people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord, and turn to Him (in repentance): He will send you the skies pouring abundant rain, and add strength to your strength: so turn ye not back in sin!" Verse # 52, Surah 11. Hud (The Boundry?)...
Tags: repentance, Greed inc., Adam Smith, CEO, equity, wealth, corporations, monetary reserves, stakeholders, shareholders, change, entrepreneurs, Thunder, economists, government, statictics, market forces, crops, hunger, Spider
Open Letter of Filipino Patriots to Obama. P.S. Don't boost her
COMPLETE TITLE: Open Letter of Filipino Patriots to Obama. P.S. Don't boost her "wrong side of history" (Related: Obama's 'strategic interests' call to SE Asia's notoriously corrupt leader) IN ANTICIPATION of the scheduled July...
Tags: politics, obama, united-states, president, washington, white-house, corruption, human-rights, asia, democracy, barack, freedom, philippines, unemployment, inauguration, speech, hunger, patriots, arroyo, letter, estrada, foreign-relations, edsa-2, power-grab, south-east-asia, mckinley, erap
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