TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature

DAR-ES-SALAAM, Mar 10 (IPS) - Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don't have access to irrigation, extremely difficult.

Minority births on track to outnumber white births in U.S.

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Tour guides trained to show off Arctic splendours

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Slovenia restores status of the "erased"

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RC church embroiled in European child abuse scandal

An Austrian priest Arch-Abbot Bruno Becker has resigned over child sex abuse allegations dating back 40 years. He is the latest Roman Catholic...

First Mondays - Country Music Monday, hosted by the Rotary Club of Giddings, is held on the first Monday of each month at the Giddings Sons of Herman hall on Highway 77 south. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and admission is $3.00 per person.

2nd Tuesday of each month - The Yoakum Rotary Club hosts the Country Music USA show. The show is at the Yoakum Community Center. Admission is $4.00 per person. A catered meal is served before the show. For more information go to www.cmusayoakum.org

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