Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine, and with a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for an agricultural revolution - this time a perpetual one.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street rallied Monday as oil prices, supported by a stronger dollar, fell back and alleviated some of investors' concerns about accelerating inflation. The Dow Jones industrials gained 130 points....
DUJIANGYAN, China (AP) -- The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades....
At least 44 people have been killed and more than 140 wounded in four days of clashes between pro- and anti-government supporters in Lebanon, according to the war-torn country's Internal Security Forces.
What are the chances that a day of reckoning is coming, when the dollar would be so weak that America would have to play by the rules that apply to every other country?
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