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....
CHENGDU, China (AP) -- A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake 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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