Camels Seen as Key to Fighting Africa's Desertification
Nairobi based researchers backed by Kenya's Agriculture Ministry UNESCO and Western governments promote camel use to curb desertification. Camels survive droughts better than cattle and provide milk, with projects centered in northern Kenya among the Samburu.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Africa
Daniel Stiles
Stiles
Los Angeles
United Nations Environment Program
Agriculture
Unesco
Walter Lusigi
Agriculture Ministry
Chalbi
Camel resilience and Samburu choices amid drought concerns
Lusigi warns camels must adapt faster to avert famine within 20 to 50 years while Otmar Greiff notes Samburu prefer camels to cattle. Chema of the Agriculture Ministry aims to boost camel appeal via milk gains and disease protection. Frederick Mayor Ronald Young updates on Carroll Creek flood control sewer project costing 45 million dollars with a 10 to 15 year horizon and downtown development potential.
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Stiles
Sahel
Sahara
West Africa
University of California At Berkeley
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Angola
Unesco
Kenya
Lusigi
Otmar Greiff
Samburu
Chema
Agriculture Ministry
Frederick
Ronald Young
Francis Scott Key
Yellow Springs Lions Clubs
Watson's Family
Carroll Creek
John Aulls
FSK Lions Program
Mayer Young
Gerald Stewart
Girl Scout delegates attend forum in Frederick
Penn Laurel Girl Scout Council President Sharron Ressler visited Frederick and met with Adult and Senior Girl Scouts of Frederick County at a fall forum. Delegates from all Frederick County neighborhoods, elected in May, attended to learn board decisions and council news and to share reactions.
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Sharron Ressler
Penn Laurel Girl Scout Council
Frederick
Jo Weakley
Norma Weakley
Sandra Eccard
Mary Billotti
Patty Green
Frances Randall
Frederick County
Penn Laurel Council
Marge Leahy
Sandra Becard
Frederick Field
Apri
Liechtenstein Art on Display at New York Museum
In a sweeping Metropolitan Museum of Art show, Liechtenstein’s private collection is staged as an operatic display of palatial works from Marcantonio Franceschini to Rubens. Highlights include the Golden Carriage, 17th century bronzes, inlaid mosaics, and a Decius Mus cycle with an Assumption by Rubens.
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New York
Princes of Liechtenstein
Europe
Liechtenstein
Peter Paul Rubens
Metropolitan Museum of Art
England
Reinhold Baumstark
Rubens
Baumstark
Marcantonio Franceschini
Johann Adam
Vienna
Kolgna
South America
Prague
Prince Joseph von Wenzel
Versailles
Decius Mus
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Sam Chema
Camel Country
Girl Scout
Matthias Rauchmiller
Jan Brughel the Elder
Lucas Cranach
Rome
Posthumus
Epilepsy Association of Maryland
Gerald Goessel
Vicki Mills
Susan Allocca
Sterling E. Bollinger
Richard L. Grossnickle
Galen R. Clagett
J. Anita Stup
Charles C. Smith
Jeff Taylor
Oregon
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