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iWifT3E5Tn A10 Journal and Courier Sunday ebruary 9 2003 A 1 I 1 Jr pieces that will point to a solu ARICA Experts: Climactic factors are overestimated in famines Continued from Page A1 9 On he Net Causes of famine co a I 'Internally displaced persons AP SOURCES: World ood Program Associated Press You do have a CHOICE in your Healthcare ihMHHI IttHMH! THniT 1 You pay only for labor Make Unity Your Choice Lifetime Installation Guarantee Carpet inc HEALTHCARE MM 765 447 8133 wwwunityhccom Years of planning years of trust Here to stay a tn 3 i ti 3 2 By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press SPACE CENTER Houston One week after the space shuttle Columbia broke apart as it streaked over Texas just minutes from home NASA still has more questions than answers Searchers have recovered re mains of all seven astronauts and more than 12000 shards of met al wires and debris that rained down across two states But the findings so far have yielded few clues The most significant discovery has been a 2 foot section of shut tle wing including the carbon cov ered leading edge designed to pro tect insulating tiles as the spacecraft heats to 3000 de grees re entering the atmosphere If that section came from the troubled left wing where temper co WE a which some it is to 1 line is the rainfall cycle: a perpet ual series of good and bad years The bottom line shows the declin ingratio of farm land per person as population has more than tripled since 1970 With the amount of land per person dropping the shock waves caused by the rain cycle are am plified Senykoff said There are no more natural disasters in Africa now than decades ago only three times as many people to suffer from them he said Senykofs job is to give away the surplus food grown by Ameri can farmers and bought by the US goveniment The World ood Pro gram gets about 60 percent of its food from the United States He said his team works hard to meet the legal requirement that American food not disrupt local markets They watch the price of grain closely and check to see if donated food is being sold in village markets But he admits that if faced with letting people starve or hurting the local econ omy make sure people get food There are 53 countries in Africa and agriculture remains the main economic driver for all but a handful Experts say they need to modernize their economies and move away from subsistence farming as China and India have US Agency for International Development: usaldgov amine Early Warning System: httptAvwwfewslnet World ood Program: shuttle program He did more than 50 media in terviews last week he said a doubt our nation has suffered a great Blaha said heart goes out to the fam ilies of the astronauts who per ished I really feel sorry for the NASA community them a very difficult time The subject matter experts despite all the external pontifi cating will discern the root cause They will come up with the ap propriate fix and be back to flying the space shuttle Guy Gardner hopes that hap pens within a year Gardner who earned a degree in aero nautics and astro nautics from Pur due in 1970 first flew in space as pi lot of Atlantis in 1988 It was the second shuttle mission after the Challenger explosion As he strapped in and prepared for liftoff he said that disaster en tered his mind but he fear ful was excited about getting the opportunity to blast off in space and confident that people had made a lot of recalled Gardner who is now a motiva tional speaker based in Arlington Va and an executive with Omega Systems Group a risk manage ment consulting firm Asked what advice he would give to the next shuttle crew Gard ner referred to the book of Proverbs 3:5: in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own 1 Number of people facing famine (in thousands) atures surged in the final moments and sensors failed in rapid sequence it could provide hard' evidence of what went wrong Investigators yet deter mined which wing the fragment belonged to but should know relatively short NASA ad ministrator Sean said Saturday after a memorial service at Barksdale Air orce Base where pieces of the shuttle are being stored In the final eight min utes the morning of eb 1 tem peratures surged in the left land ing gear compartment and the brake lines began overheating one by one Sensors began showing overheating across other areas of the left wing and adjoining fuse lage Then Mission Control lost all contact and Columbia broke apart to keep 10000 employees happy tired astronauts decided to help and functioning optimally NASA by working with the media Last week that meant making to argue the importance of the counselors available for person nel are stressed over this been a very bad week for us because the astronauts were part of our family all touched in various ways We all feel some re sponsibility We all want to know what we could have done differ People aboard space station most recent calamity is unique in another way Blaha said the Apollo fire and un like Challenger we have three hu man beings in on the In ternational Space Station said Blaha had a traffic model for sup porting that space station and con tinuing to build it been in terrupted The space shuttle must get back into that mix We have a space station with a big invest ment in it and half Until the shuttle resumes flight Blaha said Russia can sustain the station with two spacecraft the Progress and the Soyuz The Soyuz transports people and the Progress carries cargo The space station however needs both water for oxygen and Most famines are blamed on droughts but many experts say crop shortages are predictable and famine is preventable At the amine Early Warning Center in Nairobi scientists study the climate infrastructure eco nomics and politics that combine to bring hunger and death or these experts rainfall is only one of many enemies think people tend to overesti mate the importance of climatic factors as causes of food insecuri said Nic Maunder the specialist for the greater Hom of Africa region Maunder says war bad gover nance disease and poor roads and other infrastructure play equally important roles but the biggest factor is poverty usually an access question not an availability Maunder said noting that famines can occur in countries that appear to have plenty of food ood security is not merely about the food supply but an in ability to buy it he said amines almost never occur in cities or large towns where in comes depend on agricul ture Maunder said Ethiopia is a clas sic example armers in western Ethiopia produce consistent bumper crops but crop failures in the east bring food shortages every four to five years that usually leave 5 million to 10 million people hun gry people in the east are on Large In Stock Selection of Remnants Rolls Hunger crisis grips Africa A bevy of factors are contributing to hunger crisis now affecting more than 38 million people in several countries Of particular concern is the phenomenon of shifting weather patterns that have recently had disastrous effects the edge of destitution all the time black subsistence farmers re so if their crop fails they af suiting in a 60 percent drop in ford to buy the crop coming from production the other side of the country Maundersaid Ethiopia like most African countries has a poor road sys tem means times cheaper to ship food from the United States than to truck it across the coun tty' But the injec tion of foreign food can harm local economies An excess of free food can drive down the price of locally grown food leaving local farmers with out enough income to buy seeds for the next season Improperly managed temporary food aid can lead to permanent food depend ence Corruption and mismanage ment also are factors Aid workers widely blame food shortage that be gan last year on the illegal sale of the national com reserve and the embezzlement of the profits food crisis is linked to President Robert seizure of white owned commer cial farms for redistribution to sooner At the same time in no hurry to do anything rash or be fore ready going to de pend on various things Part of going to be luck quite frankly find it fix it and fly it again whether we can find some key what we did after Apollo and Chal lenger you jump ahead 17 years to last Saturday morning and we get surprised again We got sur prised by something we need to astronauts one ot whom was teacher Christa McAuliffe on Challenger and Is raeli air force Col Ilan Ramon on Columbia Both accidents occurred during the riskiest phases ascension and atmospheric re entry But it took NASA two and a half years to launch another shuttle after Challenger McCulley thinks this moratorium will be much shorter During a memorial service for the Columbia crew Tuesday at Johnson Space Center he was en couraged when President Bush declared space pro gram will go you start with the pres ident saying going to figure it out and get on with it some powerfill words So got leadership at the highest level giv ing us McCulley said Challenger it took a lit tle while before we had that focus to return to flight probably more mature We understand the vehicle better than we did in those days I believe a safer smarter better team than we were 17 years ago and those character istics will help us return to flight liquid propellant for propulsion Progress cannot carry both at the same time and financial woes limit its ability to launch mis sions Blaha has been away from NASA since retiring in 1997 He now lives in his home town of San Antonio where he is an executive at United Services Automobile As As chief operating officer of sociation a financial services com Houston based United Space Al pany that primarily serves mili liance the NASA contractor that tary personnel operatesthe shuttle program Me Upon seeing news of the Co Culley must do whatever it takes lumbia disaster he like other re 0 1000 mi 0 1000 km "TV 7: McCulley noted similarities be spacecraft Galileo on its six year aaa co" journey to Jupiter where it began luaibia tragedies Both lost seven a two year exploration ot the plan et and its moons endeavor that is high 6n rergy nuclear propulsion a zzo mph train the space shuttle air planes is al most by defini tion high risk as said McCul ley who graduat McCullev ed from Purdue in 1970 with bache and degrees in met allurgical engineering work in this system what we choose to Jo to work in this very exciting effort So you need to' redouble your efforts all the time in safety You train for beyond what expected to need occasionally things happen that make you stop back up re evaluate and redo Period of grief In 1967 Purdue graduates Roger Chaffee and Virgil Grissom were killed when their Apollo spacecraft burned up on the launchpad In 1986 the shut tle Challenger exploded during liftoff 1 run through this grief pe riod but none of us ever flown in space would ever advo cate McCulley said 9th and Union Lafayette 765 429 8899 (888) 283 0957 HOURS: 9am 7pm SAT 9am 5pm CLOSED SUNDAY Includes standard installation Carpet pad must be purchased at Miller's Extra charges Tor removal edging steps moving furniture etc SEE STORE OR DETAILS Approved Credit and $300 minimum purchase Unity Healthcare accepts most insurance plans including MEDICARE Blue CrossBlue Shield (Anthem) and many others If you have questions call (765) 447 8133 1 3 SY Gardner In Angola where civil war has destroyed the agricultural sector officials and workers in the state oil industry skim off profits while the United Na tions struggles to feed millions of rural poor living in refugee camps The contrast can be seen in Namibia: and Botswana two prosperous well governed nations in southern Africa Though caught in the same drought that has brought hunger to Angola Zimbabwe and Zambia those two nations require almost no outside aid to feed their peo ple On a whiteboard hanging on the wall of his Nairobi office Ron Senykoff has drawn a telling graph with a red marker As re gional director of the US Agency for International ood for Peace program he keeps tabs on the food sup ply Senykofs graph has two hori zontal lines The top one is a se ries of waves Along the bottom a straight line slowly sinks The top PAYMENT INTEREST OWN PAYMENT! Number of people facing starvation More than 5 million fWs 05 to 09 Less than 05 By Barbara DavidsonThe Associated Press PAYING RESPECTS: A memorial to the fallen astronauts of the space shut tle Columbia continues to grow as people gather throughout the day to commemorate the one week anniversary of the disaster on Saturday out side the Johnson Space Center in Houston More is unknown than known for NASA SHUTTLE a doubt our nation has suffered a great 'i kA I Continued from Page A1 I I BIX tel we Wil uaract Uw House Tfi I IBUUN IHBHBl MUSI IBBMMI 3 MM 1 ii ni rwirrn Kk iIbi I' fllrfVAR ii A 11 JI 41 I 4 j'J I 1 21 ai 1 to 4 I 'i 5 Ethiopia Zimbabwe 6700 Malawi 3300 Sudan 2900 Zambia 2900 Angola 1900 Eritrea 1500 Congo 1400 Uganda 1000 Lesotho 650 Mozambique 590 Mauritania 420 Sierra Leone 385 Republic of Congo 342 Swaziland 270 Liberia 182 Guinea 148 Mah 74 Gambia 34 Cape Verde 28 Ivory Coast 26 Senegal 24.