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Food banks ask gardeners to grow extra for hungryBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: June 8, 2008Filed at 3:10 p.m. ETLANGDON, N.H. (AP) -- Sharon Crossman hadn't tasted fresh fruits or vegetables in a week. Since her husband had two heart attacks and stopped working, she has relied on disability checks and... (read more)

Cuba's urban farming program a stunning success By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 8, 2008 Filed at 12:45 p.m. ET HAVANA (AP) -- For Miladis Bouza, the global food crisis arrived two decades ago. Now, her efforts to climb out of it could serve as a model for people around the world struggling to... (read more)

In 1956, M. King Hubbert, a petroleum geologist with Shell Oil, presented a paper to the American Petroleum Institute that predicted US oil production would peak in the early 1970s and then follow a declining curve, now known as Hubbert's curve. But Hubbert almost didn't get to give his... (read more)