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Ancient pottery with plowing design unearthed www.chinaview.cn 2004-08-07 10:57:27 LANZHOU, Aug. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- A 4,800-year-old piece of colored pottery bearing designs of plowing was recently unearthed at Lintao County in northwest China's Gansu Province. Chinese archaeologists believe the pottery, which is 30-cm-talland 34-cm in width, belongs to the Majiayao culture, a historical period in about 3300 B.C. to 2050 B.C.. The picture on the pottery vividly portrays a scene of plowing in simple black lines. Beside the farmland is a river, painted in several zigzag lines. Wang Zhi'an, president of the Gansu Provincial Majiayao Culture Society, said the design...

The killer of a pregnant woman may have been paid by members of her family, her husband told the Old Bailey today. Anita Gindha, 22, was strangled in front of her 19-month-old son two weeks before she had been due to give birth to a baby girl. Three years earlier, Anita had caused anger among her family when she ran away from her Glasgow home to marry Kashmir Ralh. Mr Ralh told the court: “Anita was scared that her family would trace her and kill her or me.” A cousin had told him that on two occasions, people had come...

...The high-profile political fight with Europe comes even as some Europeans say they have no evidence that genetically modified, or GM, foods are in any way harmful. EU scientists acknowledge that after dozens of studies that show no ill effects from engineered foods, their rejection is not science-based, but the result of paranoia following outbreaks like mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease...

...The high-profile political fight with Europe comes even as some Europeans say they have no evidence that genetically modified, or GM, foods are in any way harmful. EU scientists acknowledge that after dozens of studies that show no ill effects from engineered foods, their rejection is not science-based, but the result of paranoia following outbreaks like mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease...

Signal success in potato cultivation Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- Great efforts have been exerted for potato cultivation in the DPRK in recent years. It is the avowed policy of the Workers' Party of Korea to solve the issue of food by bringing about a signal turn in the potato cultivation. The state helped Taehongdan county, Ryanggang province situated in the northern alpine land set an example in potato farming. All processes of potato farming from sowing to harvest in a vast expanse of potato fields are carried out by modern machines. Virus-free good potato suited to the climatic and...