Top of the crops
 

WHILE we in the west are preoccupied with cloning sheep, pigs, dogs and, of course, ourselves, scientists in the developing world are focused on an organism of far greater importance: rice. According to a Chinese saying, "the most precious things are not jade and pearls but the five grains".

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Lakshman Kadirgamar and Lankans' collective memory lapse
 

"THUS evil is a much more complex category than it may appear. It is not a simple eccentric obscenity to compare Angelis Silesius' famous mystical statement. 'The rose is without a 'why' with Primo Levi's experience in Auschwitz.

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