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POPS"Cave Dwellers" series pics "'Palestinian 'cave-dwellers' are local community who traditionally inhabit caves in the Hebron hills. Their lives have been almost unaffected by modern times for the past 200 years. In the last three decades the small and traditional community has sometimes found itself in a fierce and violent battle over the land. In the 70s Israel has declared the area as 'closed military area' Four times the residents have been expelled from their land."
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POPSDiego Garcia: a true Exodus! same Colonists! Could the Brits get it right this time and make up a little for its cockup of 60 years ago that the whole world is paying for in fear and terror and not just the Brits that fled from its responsibilities as 'Protector'. But where did it leave EVER when there was not the seeds of war in its departure?
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POPSFather of India's Green Revolution Prepares for Evergreen Revolution
“In every crisis is an opportunity” Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one. In the early ‘60s, India grew 12 million tons of wheat every year. Starvation was rampant and the country imported much of its food. Swaminathan, an agricultural geneticist, developed new strains of high-yield wheat for his country and the programs that led to an India that exports food. Today, India grows some 70 million tons of wheat and has become the world's second-largest wheat producer. He says that today India has reached a plateau in production and productivity because a problem of under investment in rural infrastructure. His M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development follows a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.
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POPS'bizarre mix of mammal, bird and reptile, with very complex sexuality' The fact that the animal has five X and five Y chromosomes is "the weirdest thing about a very weird animal," said Ewan Birney, a co-author on the paper, based at the European Bioinformatics Institute, near Cambridge. "In theory it means there are 25 possible sexes, though in practice that doesn't happen."
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POPS"It is the smell of shit. Raw untreated sewage is pumped every day out of the Jewish settlements" "Humanitarian & Environmental Disaster of Epic Proportions" Vast stagnant pools of waste are being held within fragile dykes across the strip, and rotting. Last March, one of them burst, drowning a nine-month-old baby and his elderly grandmother in a tsunami of human waste. The Centre on Housing Rights warns that one heavy rainfall could send 1.5m cubic metres of faeces flowing all over Gaza, causing "a humanitarian and environmental disaster of epic proportions". So how did it come to this? How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago with a promise to be "a light unto the nations" end up flinging its filth at a cowering Palestinian population? ...Johann Hari
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POPSShock & Awe: The Barbarians are at the Gate! In the grand scheme of REAL civilization what will be remembered? The looting of the oil or the the destruction of the remains of a glorious civilization? Who gave the order to protect the Oil Ministry while encouraging/allowing the destruction of priceless antiquities by mindless looters as US troops looked on with tacit approval and all live on TV. Barbarians and Vandals gave the orders. Real crimes against our humanity and all civilization. Well not in my name.
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POPSWolf Spirit There are many ways that the forked animal can hide its nature. Sometimes it goes in the clothing of a wolf, but beware the disguises of the savahe biped. For myself, I would not eat, trap or harm any of my cousin animals.
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POPSUK guilty of 'a crime against humanity'. The court of appeal ruled that the exiled families have the right to go back to the islands, but ministers have applied to take the case to the House of Lords for a final decision, due in June. The government argues that resettling the islanders could lead to "substantial, open-ended" liabilities to British taxpayers and environmental damage. The report, written by resettlement expert John Howell, puts the resettlement costs at £25m, including £17.5m in capital costs and £7.5m in technical assistance. ...Guardian
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POPS62% Less Children's Tooth Decay: New Gum, better than Brushing The soft mints are designed to be dissolved and chewed into the biting surfaces of the back teeth, where about 90 percent of cavities in children occur. "Unlike regular candies, we want this product to be stuck in the teeth," said Mitchell Goldberg, president of Ortek Therapeutics Inc, a privately held company in Roslyn Heights, New York, that licensed the technology from Stony Brook. Goldberg said in a telephone interview that unlike sugarless gum, which fights cavities by temporarily increasing the flow of saliva in the mouth, the mints actively neutralize acids that cause cavities. ...Reuters
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POPS24 hours in pictures - April 08 15. Gloucestershire, UK: Some of the abandoned historic vessels in the boat graveyard between Sharpness and Purton on the banks of the river Severn. More than 80 vessels - which include schooners, lighters, barges and Severn trows - were beached from the 1900s to the 1960s 1 London, UK: Katharine Witty makes a statement on behalf of Mohamed Al Fayed after leaving the high court 5 Yala province, Thailand: Forensic experts examine a site of a roadside bomb blast in which two rangers were injured
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POPS24 hours in pictures - April 05 6 Los Angeles, US: Hillary Clinton looks out towards the audience as Rob Reiner walks off the stage at a fundraising event at the Wilshire Theatre 7 Jerusalem: Sister Clemence, a Bulgarian nun and a patient at the hospice at the St Louis Hospital 14 Mausendorf, Germany: Tunnelling construction workers and speleologists examine a dripstone cave accidentally discovered during construction works for the future ICE high-speed train tunnel 2 Paranaque City, Philippines: Victims try to salvage useful items among the debris after a fire razed the houses of some 200 families
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POPSBulldoze then claim Ancient Village never existed! In 2003 all the townships ranked among the eight poorest areas of Israel. But of the newly built communities around Beer Sheva, with their predominantly Jewish populations, two were in the top five wealthiest areas of the country. However, the seven townships to which it wants the Bedouin to move are already overcrowded and have poor living conditions - in stark contrast to the new communities being built nearby for Israelis relocating to the Negev.
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