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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Poison Spray Afghan poppy fields mysteriously sprayed with chemicals		06 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Poison Spray Afghan poppy fields mysteriously sprayed with chemicals Recently, planes have been flying over the poppy fields of Afghan farmers, spraying them -- along with houses, orchards, and perhaps even families -- with toxic chemicals apparently intended to kill poppy crops and keep them from being converted to heroin. Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed shock at th ...
Topics: Afghanistan, food and agriculture, toxics (all these topics)

Talkin' 'Bout An Evolution The U.S. should take a cue from nature in its fight against terrorism	Seth Zuckerman	11 Oct 2001	Soapbox
Talk about unimaginative. After the radically unconventional attacks on Sept. 11, the United States government strikes back in the most predictable way possible, by bombing Afghanistan from the air. Instead of studying an obsolete military playbook to plan the U.S. response, we might turn to the steady principles of ecology: After all, organisms have been living with eac ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, food and agriculture, toxics, United States, US Military, wildlife (all these topics)