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Reuters UK - Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat and chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, offered a bill that would raise the U.S. renewable fuel standard to 18 billion gallons by 2016, including 3 billion gallons from advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol ...

Times Online - 1 c.3500 BC Invention of the wheel and plough in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq); invention of the sail in Egypt: three fundamental inventions for trade, agriculture and exploration. 2 c.3200 BC Invention of writing in Mesopotamia: the means to record ...

Chicago Sun-Times - ... Patterson, solar scientists predict that a weak sunspot cycle in 2020 will propel us into an extended period of global cooling -- and that governments must immediately prepare for this global cooling to avoid a serious disruption to agriculture. I don ...

Boston Globe - Same destination, different paths in pursuit of Iowa Giuliani talks of NY; Romney of agriculture ... CLINTON, Iowa - Campaigning this week in a state he badly wants to win, Mitt Romney talked about how difficult it was ...

Washington Post - ... advisers were not appointed as requested. Biong said a separate reshuffle of seven ministers in the semi-autonomous southern cabinet announced on Thursday was to improve efficiency. Information Minister Samson Kwaje will now take of the Agriculture ...

Seattle Times - But U.S. commanders have reported inroads against both Shiite militias and al-Qaida in Iraq fighters across the fertile agriculture belt nearer to the capital. They credit local residents, emboldened against the terror tactics of both al-Qaida and ...

Newsday - But U.S. commanders have reported significant inroads against both Shia militias and al-Qaida in Iraq fighters across the fertile agriculture belt nearer to the capital. They credit local residents, emboldened against the terror tactics of both al ...

St. Petersburg Times - One favors keeping much of his grandfather's land -- an area bigger than Pinellas County -- in agriculture. The other wants to aggressively develop it. Unlike feuds from years past, this one will be decided in the corporate boardroom, not the ...

Boston Globe - The other leading GOP candidates took the stage alone at the event organized by the state party, but Romney brought his wife, his oldest son, Florida's agriculture commissioner, two congressmen and a former state party chairman with him. And he won ...

Reuters - Achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving poverty to 26.5 percent by 2015 will require a growth rate of at least 4.0 percent in agriculture and 7.0 percent in the non-farm sector," it said in its latest World Development Report. ...