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Sunday, March 23, 2008

60 Minutes Tonight: Doomsday Seed Vault

I've always wanted to know more about the doomsday seed vault and tonight I'll get my chance. 60 Minutes will be doing a story on it. Sunday night 6:00 CST. Watch with me so we can compare notes.

3 comments:

  1. I missed it. Please summarize!

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  2. I missed it also, I was too busy wrangling kids and dogs and eating chocolate.

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  3. www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/60minutes/main3954557.shtml?source=search_story

    The link above is a nice summary of the story. The most troubling part of the story was that the seed storage in Afganastan was destroyed during the recent war times when it was looted and the seeds dumped out by people who wanted the jars they were held in. Similar thing happend in Iraq.

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