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    Ending Hunger: The Role of Agriculture

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    A spike in global food prices has increased hunger, and a prolonged period of higher prices threatens to stall or reverse progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Increasing agricultural productivity in poor countries is critical to reducing hunger. Of the more than 854 million poor people who are chronically hungry, 75 percent live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their earnings, either directly, as farmers or hired workers, or indirectly in sectors that derive from farming. Increased productivity in the agricultural sector leads to more work and more production of food. Over the last twenty years, instead of increasing support for agriculture and rural development, most donors have been partners in a progressive decline in support. Aid by itself isn't enough. Developing countries themselves have to provide supportive policies, along with additional investments, for donor resources to be effective

    Substitution of stable isotopes in Chlorella

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    Replacement of biologically important isotopes in the alga Chlorella by corresponding heavier stable isotopes produces increasingly greater deviations from the normal cell size and changes the quality and distribution of certain cellular components. The usefulness of isotopically altered organisms increases interest in the study of such permuted organisms

    Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare\u27s Romances

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    In this compact, yet comprehensive exploration of Shakespeare\u27s romances, Robert W. Uphaus suggests that the romances bring us to a realm of human and dramatic experience that is beyond tragedy. The inexorable movement of tragedy toward death and a final close is absorbed in romance by a further movement in which death can lead to renewed life, characters can experience a second time of joy and peace, and the audience\u27s conventional expectations about reality and literature are challenged and enlarged. In the late tragedies of King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra, Uphaus finds the tragic structure augmented by elements that will later contribute to the form of the romances. Turning then to the romances themselves, he sees these plays as forming a profession in which Pericles is a brilliant outline of the conventions of romance and Cymbeline is romance taken to its dramatic limits, in fact to the point of parody. Through his fresh and provocative readings of the plays we experience anew the delight of Shakespearean romance and glimpse the world of renewal at its heart. Robert W. Uphaus is professor of English at Michigan State University. He is also the author of The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in Eighteenth-Century Prose.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/1055/thumbnail.jp

    The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in Eighteenth-Century Prose

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    Rationality, objectivity, symmetry: were these really principles urged and exemplified by eighteenth-century English prose? In this persuasive study, Robert W. Uphaus argues that, on the contrary, many of the most important works of the period do not actually lead the reader into a new awareness of just how problematical, how unsusceptible to reason, both the world and our easy assumptions about it are. Uphaus discusses a broad range of writers—Swift, Defoe, Mandeyville, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Johnson, and Godwin—showing that beneath their variety lies a fundamentally similar challenge, addressed to the critical procedure which assumes that the exercise of reason is a sufficient tool for an understanding the appeal of imaginative literature. Robert W. Uphaus is associate professor of English at Michigan State University. Well informed, compact, and perspicuous . . . the book could serve as a vade mecum for a course in eighteenth-century prose. —South Atlantic Quarterly A convincing and always interesting view of how—and with what probable results—the writer of eighteenth-century prose went about forcing his reader to participate in his text. —Johnsonian Newsletterhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/1102/thumbnail.jp
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