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...correctly identify organic cotton as problematic in your article on ecological intelligence but fail to suggest the clear alternative: industrial (nondrug) hemp. The crop, which can be used as an alternative to cotton as well as a base for fuels and plastics, can grow with rainwater and requires no pesticides. The fact that the U.S., unlike most industrialized nations, continues to prohibit hemp deserves some serious attention in these dire times. Tim Mensching, ASTORIA...
...days of unpaid leave a week during the first two months of 2009. For firms with an eye on an eventual recovery, one of the main reasons to cut working hours and not jobs is that it reduces costs at the same time as preserving the talent base. But cutting hours also adds to the bigger macroeconomic problem currently hammering the world economy: lack of demand. Pay cuts eat into consumer spending, which in turn amounts to more bad news for a world economy in need of stimulus. "If you go too far, you'll just aggravate the demand crisis...
...affects us is subconscious,” Wu said. “Whatever is familiar to you becomes the norm, and our ideas of relationships and sexuality are shaped by what we expose ourselves to.” Characters become role models to those who base their metrics of social interaction on television shows, said Michelle M. Parilo ’10, president of the Seneca, in a phone interview. “It’s not an extreme problem, but it does impact how women think,” Parilo said...
...answered with a prolific attack in the bottom-half of the inning.Freshman Whitney Shaw led off with a double off the centerfield fence and scored on Schellberg’s single up the middle, which ricocheted off of the pitcher’s glove. With Schellberg still on the base paths, Francis stepped up to the plate and drove a ball over the wall in dead center field to give Harvard an 8-3 lead. For Francis, the home run was the tenth of her Crimson career, moving her into tenth place on Harvard’s career home...
...baseball often have the same effect as using bubblegum to plug up a leaky faucet.They can serve as a temporary fix, momentarily masking deficiencies and creating the illusion of a fundamentally sound operation.But as the Harvard baseball team found out yesterday, sharp line drives into the gaps and base-clearing home runs can only conceal shoddy defense and ineffective pitching for so long.The Crimson lineup scorched the ball in yesterday’s back-and-forth battle with Holy Cross at O’Donnell Field, but lackluster play on the mound and in the field ultimately doomed Harvard...