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...enter the food chain, eventually getting ingested by humans. Sometimes dead watercraft foster the growth of new sea life that threatens the pre-existing local ecosystem. On Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, a population explosion of corallimorph, an aggressive creature similar to anemones and coral, killed almost all the coral growing around a long-line fishing vessel that sank in 1991, according to a report published in August in the journal PLoS One by Thierry Work, a wildlife-disease specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey, and his colleagues. The corallimorph were probably attracted to the leaching iron...
Taking the rapid pace of inflation into account—a rise of almost 3.5 percentage points since August 2007—this deferment of budget proposals signifies a decrease in real funding...
...Harvard does a good job for its freshmen,” Rankin said. She cited Sex Signals, Saturday Night magazine, and other efforts by OSAPR designed to spread awareness. “We do our best to facilitate dialogue to prevent sexual assaults. I think we had almost 100 percent attendance at Sex Signals,” Rankin said. Stanford took first place in the report card, up from 41st place last year, while Dartmouth fell 44 places to 68th, the worst finish out of the Ivies. Jim Daniels, Trojan’s vice president of marketing, said that...
...That it was nice to have someone to talk with about familiar things, like plantains, and Creole, and warm weather. My next revelation was that seeing my friends at CVS also brought me joy, and that it was presumably because I was just as homesick as they were.At Harvard, almost all of us live far from home. For the class of 2012, 82.6% of students come from outside New England, with 11.7% coming from outside of the United States. While it makes for a more varied student body than one would meet at most state schools, Harvard?...
...McCain was almost as quick to throw blame around as his GOP colleagues, and his target was, no surprise, Barack Obama. "From the minute John McCain suspended his campaign and arrived in Washington to address this crisis, he was attacked by the Democratic leadership: Senators Obama and Reid, Speaker Pelosi and others," said Doug Holtz-Eakin, a McCain senior policy adviser. "Their partisan attacks were an effort to gain political advantage during a national economic crisis. By doing so, they put at risk the homes, livelihoods and savings of millions of American families...