...sometimes tearful pleas have been seen from residents suffering for more than a week from cold, lack of fuel, water and food shortages, housing and transportation dilemmas and otherwise chaotic conditions.By saying all the right things and being seen...
...2010, leading researchers to suspect a shortage in the bay of the tiny zooplankton that are a main food source.A food shortage in 2010 could have affect births this past winter because gestation in right whales takes a full year, said Amy Knowlton...
...some houses seized by city authorities.1864: Augusta provides for many refugees from path of Sherman's march; food shortage becomes more serious; hogs sell for $1,400 each.1865: Thousands of paroled Confederate soldiers and freed prisoners...
...inflation has risen to its highest point in more than 11 years, jumping 7.1 percent in January, as snowstorms worsened food shortages. The biggest price hikes have been for food, but analysts say longer-term pressures on prices for manufactured...
...again. Flush with success from their broken-record rant on global warming, they are now warning of a worldwide food shortage. After years of cheap food, higher prices are causing the "perfect storm for the world's hungry," officials...
...switched over in about a half-day, he said. The use of corn and other feedstock for fuel production has created some food shortages, and Mr. Pardue said he is looking at nonfood alternatives for possible future use. In the meantime, Mr. Pardue...
...their government's subsidized bread every day. Yet, bakeries cannot provide enough bread. Rising food prices and food shortages make acquiring food a daily hardship for millions of Egyptians. The need for food helped push Egypt into riotous...
...market competition. Quite simply, price controls have never worked and have done a lot of harm. They caused deadly food shortages in ancient Rome. They starved Washington's troops at Valley Forge. And they prompted the long lines at gas stations...
...known as Caenorhabditis elegans. When it is well-fed, it survives only about three weeks, but it can withstand food shortages in a larval state for at least two months. Several genes in this worm were already linked to the larva's longer...
...isolated minor inconveniences if anything happens at all. Others fear a global economic meltdown, accompanied by food shortages and the collapse of the nation's power grid. From a marketing perspective, it doesn't matter which scenario...
The Augusta Chronicle ©2011. All Rights Reserved.