War and peace ‘the aviation perspective’
On July 27, 2011, the flight bringing first aid
to famine stricken Somalia landed in Mogadishu. It carried 10 tonnes
of plumpy nuts enough to offer 3,500 children suffering from
starvation a respite from death. According to the Economist, famine
is declared when 30 percent of the children are actually
malnourished,
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How traditional rice survives
According to the Mahavamsa, which tends to be
reticent on the subject of food, the legendary King Vijaya ate rice
given to him by the Yakkhini Kuveni and cooked by his followers. It
has been the staple diet of the people of this island for all our
recorded history and earlier. Rice seems first to have been
cultivated in the Yangtze valley of China about 10,000 years ago.
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D. R. Wijewardene’s 126th birth anniversary:
Great patriot who rendered yeoman service for Independence
The secret of D. R. Wijewardene as a powerful
newspaper proprietor was due to his high degree of discipline,
dedication, devotion, commitment combined with loftiness of his
character and versatility of his intellect. Further, no field of
human endeavour was left untouched by the swaying amplitude of his
imagination, encompassing sweep of his thought, felicity of his
words and the indefatigable zeal of his actions. No wonder, he left
an indelible impression in most of what he touched with rare
dynamism and exemplary zeal,
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