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Primate Change? Or Climate Change? You Choose! – The Blogal Village Voice 102 What’s In A Name? IGNRM. A Phrase Or Some Other Name Would Be Nice 116 Choosing Joy. Being On How To Interpret Science Language 121 About The Author 127
Preface T eam ICRISAT is publishing this book the better to share these informative and innovative essays with readers outside of the World Wide Web. The Web, more popularly called the Internet, altogether makes up an entirely different collection of readers. Even to those who have read these unique essays online in the many diverse websites where they are published, but especially the American Chronicle (http://americanchronicle.com/), the articles will reveal something new on the second reading, another something new on the third, and still another something new on the fourth reading. All written in the first person with the aim of engaging the reader in a one-on-one, we like to think they can be aptly described in one sentence: Science writing with a human face. This collection of essays is by Frank A Hilario, a Filipino writer and editor known for his high standards, varied experience in information and communication as well as a wide interest in subject matter from Africa to Shakespeare, from Abaca to Zen Buddhism, any of which animates and expands the view in each article written, so that even an old topic always becomes interesting and turns out to be something new the way he tells it. Most of the essays are 1,000 words plus; several are twice as long. None of them is boring. The author is a graduate of the University of the Philippines Los Baños; his degree is BS Agriculture with major in Ag Education; his first love, he says, is writing, beginning when he was in high school. The reader can glean more of the author in reading the essays where he reveals his original thoughts and more and more of himself. Certainly, each of the essays, original and interesting as they are, sometimes even intriguing, leads to a telling of a singular story on or about Team ICRISAT on one hand, and the Team Captain on the other – as well as partner institutions around the world. Team symbolizes partnership in the first place, characterized by active and interactive initiatives that are designed to carry forward ICRISAT’s mantra, which is Science with a human face, in pursuit of the Grey to Green Revolution. Several of these essays focus on or make special mention of sweet sorghum as the ‘sweet crop’ for problem soils: waterlogged, rainfed, drought-stricken, infertile soils where irrigation is an expensive proposition. The author’s firm belief in ICRISAT as a whole, and the passion of the writer’s advocacy of what Team ICRISAT is or has been doing is evident in each essay. It is amazing how within each of his stories, he leads us to appreciate the relationship between matters that we do not usually associate with each other, or would label as bizarre a relationship that is only pointed out but not explained. For instance, he has been able to associate Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize with sweet sorghum, and the color yellow, again, with sweet sorghum. It might be said that his belief in this crop as appropriate for the poor is as firm as ours. It is equally astonishing how he ‘translates’ technical language into popular language in such a way that both the layman and the technical man want to read him intently. For there is always some history and some drama to the stories, for stories they are, not simply reportage. The essays provide a respite from the usual journalistic reportage characterized by predictable titles, beginnings, middles, and endings. v
Page 2 and 3: Citation: Hilario FA. 2007. Team IC
Page 5: Contents Preface Author’s Forewor
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Page 12 and 13: 2 You will understand that I’ve h
Page 14 and 15: 4 There are 3 kinds of written info
Page 16 and 17: 6 prong arrangement, Prong 1 launch
Page 18 and 19: 8 Studying in the University of the
Page 20 and 21: 10 If I have one, sweet sorghum is
Page 22 and 23: 12 We face a true planetary emergen
Page 24 and 25: 14 Charles Clover (telegraph.co.uk)
Page 26 and 27: 16 they did not devise a Senate inq
Page 28 and 29: 18 1,000 films a year. With India o
Page 30 and 31: 20 Knowledge Initiative has three m
Page 32 and 33: 22 needs more milk from a mother. B
Page 34 and 35: 24 Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), whi
Page 36 and 37: 26 Provide a global framework to su
Page 38 and 39: 28 Fire And Ice Robert Frost Some s
Page 40 and 41: 30 From the scientific (chemistry)
Page 42 and 43: 32 Great! The only problem with Bro
Page 44 and 45: 34 To compare further, from AERC In
Page 46 and 47: 36 In the Philippines, intrigued an
Page 48 and 49: 38 7. LEARNING FROM MICROSOFT R4D.
Page 50 and 51: 40 (a) long-range effects of crop c
Page 52 and 53: 42 A few days ago, the Department o
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46 of purpose’ (heartquotes.net).
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48 10. BEING A DIFFERENT KIND OF CV
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50 had a project funded by the Ford
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52 State University for his intense
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54 2004: ICRISAT’s Turnaround: St
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56 (2) It multiplies the farmers. H
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58 12. THE TELUGU PARADIGM. UNDERST
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60 Dr BR Ambedkar Open University E
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62 13. THE TURNING POINT. KNOW THAT
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64 The Adarsha project taught the v
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66 Now, I’m asking you to transla
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68 The area under irrigation is ver
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70 Translating: African governments
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72 15. THE ACADEME AS ANTI-POOR. UN
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74 Poor communication services? Doe
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76 His maternal uncle helped him th
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78 16. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: WILLI
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80 Our responsibility to our childr
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82 A global crop - Sweet sorghum us
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84 citizen entrepreneur who brings
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86 17. ‘SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
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88 Region 05: DD highest, the rest
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90 18. BIOPOWER TO THE PEOPLE! THE
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92 I have just been inspired to wri
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94 19. THE CHILDREN OF MAIDANEK. OR
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96 The old world is dying, and we a
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98 Still, I’m not comfortable wit
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100 So, what’s that to UP Los Ba
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102 If billions of us Primates will
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104 Not only blogging, I take to wr
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106 That’s a $5 million decrease
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108 from poor to rich soils, advanc
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110 read and put them down in your
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112 (6) Primate, come declare your
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114 22. WHAT’S IN A NAME? IGNRM.
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116 IGNRM … is a powerful integra
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118 Juliet is asking Romeo to chang
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120 The language is technical Engli
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122 because what I don’t know, I
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124 able to sell to yourself, that
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126 He now has his dream digital ca
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