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In one region of India alone 1,300 cotton farmers took their own lives in 2006, but the culprit cannot rest solely on a falling water table.';qwip[3]='Large, monoculture farms require intense pollination activity for short periods of the year, a role that other pollinators such as wild bees and bats cannot fill. Only A. melliferacan deploy armies of pollinators at almost any time of the year, wherever the weather is mild enough and there are flowers to visit. ';qwip[4]='The Casimiro Huanca university in the Chapare region will be located in the town of Chimore and will conduct its courses in the Quechua language, which is spoken by the majority of the people in that part of the Bolivian valleys.';qwip[5]=' The Consumer Price Index fell for the first time since 1955, and bankrupt Lehman Brothers made plans to sell its 500,000-pound stockpile of yellowcake uranium, which has recently plummeted in value. ';qwip[6]='Drawing on interviews with scientists, fishermen, bureaucrats, chicken farmers, whale watchers and other people who rely on and care deeply about America\'s waterways, Smith tells a fascinating and disturbing story about the steep decline of our nation\'s biggest bodies of water.';qwip[7]='Option two: We are about to make extraordinary progress in the world, as we set a new tone of intelligent cooperation in our foreign policy, restoring much of the respect and international goodwill Bush so grossly destroyed, as we finally step back up to the adult\'s table, not as the domineering father figure everyone fears for his drunken, violent tirades, but as the kind of elegant intellect and influential peacemaker everyone wants to emulate. ';qwip[8]='Unlike most electric-car technologies, which generally require you to plug your car into a power source and recharge an onboard battery for hours, the Better Place robot is designed to reach under the chassis of an electric car, pluck its battery out and replace it with a new one, much the same way you\'d put new batteries in a child\'s toy. ';qwip[9]='Synthetic biologists use information about these interactions to construct synthetic gene networks (collections of genes that interact directly or indirectly through their RNA and protein products) that can be introduced into microbes or mammalian cells to perform a desired task, such as creating microbes that produce a chemical by-product that could be used as fuel.';qwip[10]='President Obama has signaled to Cabinet members that science should be guiding government judgments in controversial matters of medicine and technology, not the prevailing political mood. On Tuesday, however, a government lawyer told three judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that the administration wasn\'t required to explain or retract its statements that marijuana "has no currently accepted medical use."';qwip[11]='He estimates it would cost from $80,000 to $90,000 to put in a couple of acres of field plots surrounded by the type of security the Drug Enforcement Administration requires. ';qwip[12]='Davis paid 35 dibits for the haircut. The dibit is the Dibspace barter currency, and equal to one dollar. ';qwip[13]='Their invention is flexible and thin enough to fit underneath the skin, without losing the ability to conduct electricity. That\'s a lot of work for something so incredibly small. With these attributes, the potential real world applications of the technology are simply awesome. ';qwip[14]='Flash was once known primarily as the technology behind those niggling Web ads in the 1990s that gyrated and flickered on the screen. Today, it is a ubiquitous but behind-the-scenes Web format used to display Facebook applications, interactive ads and, most notably, the video on sites like YouTube and Hulu.com. ';qwip[15]='Here are five glimpses into a genre that has gone far beyond imitation to take on a character and life of its own. ';qwip[16]='A bill expected to be introduced in the U.S. Congress as early as Monday would rewrite the ground rules for mail order and Internet sales by eliminating what its supporters view as a "loophole" that, in many cases, allows Americans to shop over the Internet without paying sales taxes. ';qwip[17]=' Pigeons are coming home to roost in the prestigious halls of the United Kingdom\'s Parliament building. Whether they make it across the Atlantic to the US Capitol is a matter that should be of interest to all Americans. ';qwip[18]=' In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since &#8211; and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country\'s food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas. ';qwip[19]='"This finding really goes beyond anything that has previously been shown," said Jones in a media advisory. "We had to use sophisticated tools to analyze the dust because this isn\'t just a typical explosive, RDX or CD4 or something -- this is a highly engineered material not readily available to just anyone."  ';qwip[20]='Dramatic footage obtained by the Guardian shows that the man who died at last week\'s G20 protests in London was attacked from behind and thrown to the ground by a baton&#8211;wielding police officer in riot gear. ';qwip[21]=' The Canadian financial market is a bit like the country: low-key and a little boring. Today, it is the envy of the rest of the world.';qwip[22]='The mass deaths associated with the Communist era may be history, but another sort of mass death may have only just begun, as Russians practice what amounts to an ethnic self-cleansing. ';qwip[23]='The biggest wind potential lies off the nation\'s Atlantic coast, which the Interior report estimates could produce 1,000 gigawatts of electricity -- enough to meet a quarter of the national demand. ';qwip[24]='The appetite of the American prison machine is voracious.  Each year 7 million Americans are jailed and approximately 700,000 go on to serve prison sentences. When a racial prism is added to these numbers the stark reality of racial unfairness is impossible to deny.  And now women and girls are the fastest growing group of prisoners.  ';qwip[25]='The researchers showed giving THC to mice with cancer decreased tumour growth and killed cells off in a process called autophagy. ';qwip[26]='There were between 15 and 20, all DEA. The man lying next to me didn\'t put up any kind of struggle but he kept saying, \'I\'m a patient.\' And \'Why are you doing this?\'';qwip[27]='Hemp-lime is a lightweight composite building material made of fibres from the fast growing plant, bound together using a lime-based adhesive. The hemp plant stores carbon during its growth and this, combined with the low carbon footprint of lime and its very efficient insulating properties, gives the material a &#8216;better than zero carbon\' footprint. ';qwip[28]='A liquid morphine painkiller given by family caregivers to dying patients can remain on the market, federal regulators have decided after hearing protests over their decision to remove it. ';qwip[29]='Is it not some form of strange self-torture, a kind of brutal spiritual immolation, to believe that God is this gloomy, obsessive micromanager, so petty and vindictive regarding what you do with your body that you/he will let people die for the sake of it?';qwip[30]='A multimillennial mechanical monument, the Long Now Foundation\'s 10,000 Year Clock is a work existing at the intersection of art, science, and engineering, and is a thinker\'s window into the past, present, and future of humanity itself. ';qwip[31]='If the IMF\'s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform.';qwip[32]='With so many of our citizens in prison compared with the rest of the world, there are only two possibilities: Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different--and vastly counterproductive. Obviously, the answer is the latter. ';qwip[33]='What those memos lay out means the end of the system of checks and balances in this country. It means the end of the system in which the courts, legislature and executive each had a function and they could check each other. ';qwip[34]='Many economists and analysts are worrying that the United States might go the way of Japan, which suffered a "lost decade" after its own real estate market fell apart in the early 1990s. But I\'m more concerned that the United States is coming to resemble Argentina, Russia and other so-called emerging markets, both in what led us to the crisis, and in how we\'re trying to fix it.';qwip[35]='In a report to be issued this weekend, the researchers said that the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, but that they could not say conclusively that the Chinese government was involved. ';qwip[36]='China\'s central bank governor has issued a bold proposal to overhaul the global monetary system and one day replace the dollar as the world\'s main reserve currency with the International Monetary Fund\'s (IMF) Special Drawing Right ';qwip[37]='Wired reported that officials from Premier admitted in a hearing held March 17 in California that their tabulation software could miss significant events, including the deletion of votes on Election Day. They said the flaw is present in every version of the software. ';qwip[38]='The reporters looked, but didn\'t see it, because it was three inches under their feet, under the shingle rock of the icy beach. Gail pulled out her hand and now the whole place smelled like a gas station. The network crews wanted to puke.   ';qwip[39]='Even cellulosic ethanol has established itself. As of January, several companies--including Iogen, Abengoa Bioenergy, and Poet-- have pilot-scale cellulosic plants in operation. And widescale commercial cellulosic ethanol should be available by 2011. ';qwip[40]='Mexico\'s hillbilly drug smugglers have morphed into a raging insurgency. Violence claimed more lives there last year alone than all the Americans killed in the war in Iraq. And there\'s no end in sight. ';qwip[41]='As for those tens of millions of you who believe that cannabis should be legally regulated like alcohol -- and the tens of thousands of you who voted to make this subject the most popular question in today\'s online Presidential Town Hall -- well, your voice doesn\'t really matter. ';qwip[42]='The international financial corporations which have wreaked havoc around the world with astounding nonsensical "solutions" that are destructive of everyone but them, are brothers to the international agribusiness giants (Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc.) which are just as aggressively after their own form of "taking."  Just seeds, animals, water, land.   ';qwip[43]='"We only need to go south of the border and see a nation that enacted mandatory minimums related to drug offences from the mid-1980s on," criminologist Susan Boyd told the Georgia Straight. "It didn\'t reduce violence and drug use. So here we are saying, &#8216;We\'re going to do this.\'';qwip[44]='"Hemp is a versatile, environmentally-friendly crop that has not been grown here for over 50 years because of a politicized interpretation of the nation\'s drug laws by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)."';qwip[45]='A wiry 40-year-old ecologist at the University of Washington, Tewksbury is risking his sacroiliac in this fly-infested forest looking for a wild chili with a juicy red berry and a tiny flower: <i>Capsicum minutiflorum<\/i>.';qwip[46]='In the former Roman province of Syria (located in modern day Jordan), researchers are currently studying a sensational canal system. It extends mostly underground over a distance of 106 kilometers (66 miles). ';qwip[47]='In the hardware used to record and capture events in the LHC, she discovered errors that were leading to the appearances of double images because of particle streams known as jets.';qwip[48]='So it\'s time to admit it: We\'re fools, protagonists in a kind of gruesome comedy about the marriage of greed and stupidity. And the worst part about it is that we\'re still in denial -- we still think this is some kind of unfortunate accident, not something that was created by the group of psychopaths on Wall Street whom we allowed to gang-rape the American Dream. ';qwip[49]='The juvenile-rights attorneys had handled an "eerily similar" case in 1999, Levick said. Both crimes were minor, both punishments severe. ';qwip[50]='He told the inquiry that the intelligence made it "very clear" that Saddam Hussein did not pose a significant threat to the UK, as was being claimed at the time by ministers, and that tougher enforcement of sanctions could have brought his regime down. ';qwip[51]='Goldhamer and Schirmer were arrested after refusing to follow a police order to disperse and cease leafleting. After the dismissal of these charges in state court, Goldhamer and Schirmer filed suit seeking to have the ordinance declared unconstitutional because it violated their First Amendment rights. ';qwip[52]='When Republicans announce that the New Deal failed--as they now do, over and over again, without any reproach from their own side--they usually say that the case has been proven by the conservative columnist Amity Shlaes in her book <i>The Forgotten Man<\/i>.';qwip[53]='The city of 60,000--and its surrounding 12-town region, with a quarter-million people--has traded in most of its oil, gas and electric furnaces for community "district heat," produced at plants that burn sawdust and wood waste left by timber companies.';qwip[54]='Earlier this year, the company ran the modified microbe through a series of tests in large fermenters and found that it was able to convert one ton of cellulosic plant fiber into sugar in 72 hours.';qwip[55]='In Obama\'s first major domestic security initiative, administration officials are expected to announce as early as this week a crackdown on the supply of weapons and cash moving from the United States into Mexico that helps sustain that country\'s narco-traffickers, officials said. ';qwip[56]=' It was part of an advanced seminar on growing and selling marijuana in which I had enrolled at the Los Angeles campus of Oaksterdam University, a new trade school founded in Oakland and devoted to the booming business of growing and dispensing medical marijuana.';qwip[57]='they have developed new varieties of wheat resistant to the Ug99 strain of stem rust fungus that is threatening the world\'s food supplies. The race is now on to get the wheat into the world\'s breadbaskets before Ug99 spreads further. ';qwip[58]='Now, Alexei Tkachenko and Nicolas Licata from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, have come up with a solution: trap the nanoparticles in a cage where the bars are made of DNA, and then stack the cages to form nanostructures.';qwip[59]='Over the past year-and-a-half Calfee has flown to Ghana three times to train framebuilders on how to harvest, cure and make bamboo bikes out of local bamboo.';qwip[60]='Seven states -- Hawaii, West Virginia, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Kentucky, and North Dakota -- have legalized hemp production; however, not one is producing the crop because of resistance from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.';qwip[61]='The turn-around in his condition was ironically caused by the bite of a Recluse spider that put him in a Manteca hospital for five days. ';qwip[62]='It unifies your phone numbers, transcribes your voice mail, blocks telemarketers and elevates text messages to first-class communication citizens. And that\'s just the warm-up. ';qwip[63]='Making the film in Greece was completely out of the question, thanks to the military coup that provides a final, bitter sting to the tale of murder, coverup and investigation in "Z."';qwip[64]='According to the reasoning in the memos, Congress has no role to check and balance the executive. That is the definition of a police state. ';qwip[65]='Most people don\'t know that the vision behind Canada\'s banking system, made up of a few large, national banks with branches from coast to coast, actually had its beginnings in the United States. ';qwip[66]='The Pew Center for the States study of 2007 U.S. Census data found that Louisiana\'s incarceration rate spiked by 272 percent since 1982. That rate of increase is far from the nation\'s highest of 357 percent in North Dakota, and not far from Mississippi\'s 256 percent increase.';qwip[67]='Despite the fact that they constitute only 12% of the U.S. population, immigrants have started 52% of Silicon Valley\'s technology companies and contributed to more than 25% of our global patents.';qwip[68]='More than 550 Rohingya, a Muslim minority group in pre-dominantly Buddhist Myanmar, are feared to have drowned in the last two months after being towed out to sea by the Thai military.';qwip[69]='"Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution."';