"We take soil for granted, but we need to pay more attention to it, " she says.
And will they agree to allow U.S. to use bases on their soil for military strikes?
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Founded in 1847 by Dutch immigrants, Pella provided rich soil for grain and corn.
Having spent long days on his uncle's farm, he knows what it's like to work the soil for a living.
Staff from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will start sifting through soil for human remains on Tuesday, police said.
Tilling, or plowing, a field prepares the soil for planting and destroys weeds, but a Roundup-ready crop doesn't require extensive tillage.
On a recent morning at the academy, a bulldozer and a dump truck leveled a stretch of soil for a running field.
Having spent long days on his uncle's Effingham, Ill. farm, he knows what it's like to work the soil for a living.
Fifa, world football's governing body, has decreed that the World Cup will be held on African soil for the first time in 2010.
And he arrived in London just in time to watch his rugby team succumb to England on home soil for the first time.
It has allowed plants, such as early sand grass and various orchids, to pop their heads out of the soil for the first time in years.
Thousands of fans will be heading off on an antipodean adventure next November as England try to win on Australian soil for the first time since 1987.
Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima, 44, set foot on Libyan soil for the first time in nearly two years after being found not guilty at the end of a nine-month trial.
The problem is that while clear-cutting sections of rain forest and burning out all the underbrush makes great soil for pastureland, it only does so for about three years.
Even the return of Henry Cotton to the Great Britain side was not enough to prevent the Americans from winning the Ryder Cup on British soil for the first time.
Two children from Greece's small Roman Catholic community held a bowl filled with Greek soil for the traditional papal kiss -- a ceremony that was in doubt over worries it could enrage those opposing the visit.
While once Syria used Hezbollah in Lebanon as a proxy against Israel, Hezbollah is now deterred from acting on Lebanese soil for fear of Israeli retribution and is preparing to use the instability in Syria as its future staging ground.
But the agency then began circulating a second set of cancer-based goals, which lowered permissible dioxin levels to 3.7 ppt for residential soil and 17ppt for commercial sites.
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Some Hindus have been appalled at the pope's open call, on Indian soil, for conversions in Asia.
The project aims at providing comprehensive information on the present condition of the structure of Jam Nizamuddin Tomb and soil condition for a proper conservation and restoration of the structure.
China rolls out the welcome mat on its soil, for example recently inviting Arab leaders to Yinchuan, in northern-central part of the country, for the 3rd China-Arab States Economic and Trade Forum.
This has irritated several national governments, especially the British and French ones, which think the PMOI is a nasty nuisance and its presence on their soil bad for relations with both Iraq and Iran.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then walking out to the rough ground where the biomass is growing (between the stream and the good soil reserved for corn) will tell the story much better than anything I can say in a meeting.
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The Prince of Wales has campaigned on this subject, alongside the Soil Association, for seven years.
The rich, tree-free prairie soil was great for farming, but lumber had to be imported for houses and barns.
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He spread 50 tons of lyme to make the soil acidic enough for truffles, which will take four years to mature.
The females build nests in the sandy soil, calling for a mate.
It is true, they say, that tree roots can trap sliding soil but only for shallow landslides of up to a metre in depth.
He hasn't been able to lay a new foundation, he said, because the national government keeps changing the requirements for soil testing and foundation design in his zone.
The former soldiers were shown how to plant endemic bamboo, which is an excellent anchor for soil and so fast-growing that it can colonize a hillside within months.
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