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Africa’s “green revolution” will hinge on home-grown…
Free with registration - Food Chemical News - AccessMyLibrary.com - Aug 21, 2006
(INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS)(Brief article) Africa’s “green revolution” will hinge on home-grown rice. (INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS)(Brief article) Publication: Food Chemical News Publication Date: 21-AUG-06.

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Kantipur Online - Aug 21, 2006
Through a job at a furniture store owned by Lebanese-Americans with fundamentalist alliances, he is also inculcated into the jihad: the novel follows his recruitment to a suicide mission. It is a curiously bad novel. Updike calls upon every stereotype of the home-grown terrorist (of the kind that Britain has produced more than America). Ahmad is a sensitive boy from a broken home, a refined boy abandoned to a hard-scrabble high school where his male classmates are gang members and the girls easily fall into prostitution. His mother loves him but is both too busy and too unconventional to give him much guidance. Ahmad finds assuring certainties in his Imam’s teachings. It then falls upon his guidance counselor at school, a lapsed Jew, to recognize that the boy is dangerously adrift, and to try to save him, handily filling in as a surrogate father figure by having an extramarital affair with the boy’s mother.

Researchers Look Into Growing Biofuel Crops On Abandoned Industrial…
Science Daily - Science Daily (press release) - Aug 21, 2006
In both cases, the vehicles are fueled with B5 (5 percent biodiesel fuel) at the factory. This fall, the company will approve use of B20 in the Dodge Ram diesel pickup for fleet customers who use fuel that meets the current military fuel quality specification. “Renewable fuels such as biodiesel can be a home-grown solution to our nation’s environmental, energy and economic challenges,” said Deborah Morrissett, vice president of regulatory affairs for DaimlerChrysler. “This research project with Michigan State can make an important contribution toward reducing our nation’s reliance on oil. ”
The three-year study is supported by DaimlerChrysler, NextEnergy and Project GREEEN (Generating Research and Extension to meet Economic and Environmental Needs), the state’s plant industry initiative at MSU. The study also is supported by the MSU Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station. “Biofuel production is going to require a significant land base to meet future production expectations,” Thelen said.

Home boy Horne is last-gasp Hull hero.
Free with registration - Europe Intelligence Wire - AccessMyLibrary.com - Aug 21, 2006
| Europe Intelligence Wire (August, 2006). As the clock ticked dow.

China Mobile admits to flexing its muscles
Inquirer - Aug 21, 2006
Namely weather updates and crop prices. As usual, however, Mr Wang could give no indication of how soon China will actually award 3G licences. And when itdoes so, whether China´s own home-grown 3G technology - TD-SCDMA - will get a look in.

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