Word: argument
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Sitting in an armchair in his enormous Eisenhower Building office overlooking the West Wing, Orszag unspools the argument he has made for years, first as a scholar at the Brookings Institution and then as head of the Congressional Budget Office. No long-term budget plan can get around the massive surge in costs that comes with rising medical-care prices and the aging of the baby boomers. "If health-care costs grow at the same rate over the next four decades as they did over the past four decades, you're up to 20% of gross domestic product...
...still not buying the whole "organic-is-better" argument, this study might convince you otherwise. As Davis points out, more than three billion people around the world suffer from malnourishment and yet, ironically, efforts to increase food production have actually produced food that is less nourishing. Fruits seem to be less affected by genetic and environmental dilution, but one can't help but wonder if it's even possible to avoid nutritionally bankrupt veggies. Supplementing them is problematic, too: don't look to vitamin pills, as recent research indicates that those aren't very helpful either...
...pushing for an end to the 22-year-old worldwide ban on commercial whaling. While industry supporters contend that it's necessary for food security, today the average Japanese eats a little more than an ounce of whale meat per year, which puts a damper on the argument...
...relationship we might expect. Analyzing the waters off Western Africa and the Caribbean, where baleen whales breed, Gerber and her colleagues mined marine data to create ecosystem models that plotted the feeding interactions between whales and fish. (They chose these waters in part because Japan is using the fishery argument to persuade Caribbean and African nations to support the lifting of the whaling...
...International Whaling Commission is set to meet in a few months, and Japan and its allies will once again push for an end to the commercial ban - an appeal the Science analysis significantly undermines. But one fact of the Japanese argument is undeniable: the world's commercial fisheries are in serious trouble, and they're getting worse. In new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Feb. 12, the marine ecologist William Cheung announced that climate change would have a devastating impact on the world's commercial fish and shellfish populations...