Tuesday Round-up
September 14, 2010
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The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization re<a href=
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hunger has fallen this year but remains “unacceptably high.”
They’ve estimated that there are 925 million undernourished people
in 2010, compared with 1.02 billion in 2009. (BBC)
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The U.S. Justice Department said yesterday that it expects to
f<a href=
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a civil suit in relation to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
(Wall Street Journal)
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Crop yields <a href=
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are down in Western Kentucky and farmers are hauling water for
livestock, reports show. The region is in “moderate drought,”
although some places got nearly 3 inches of rain on Saturday. The
Central, Bluegrass and Eastern regions are considered “near
normal.” (Lexington Herald-Leader)
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America <a href=
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is becoming a nation of “casual eavesdroppers.” (USA Today)