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...Nimans like to call what they do "beyond organic," and there are some signs that consumers are beginning to catch up. This November, California voters approved a ballot proposition that guarantees farm animals enough space to lie down, stand up and turn around. Worldwide, organic food - a sometimes slippery term but on the whole a practice more sustainable than conventional food - is worth more than $46 billion. That's still a small slice of the overall food pie, but it's growing, even in a global recession. "There is more pent-up demand for organic than there is production," says...
Human Impact: The Omega Effect Beef has a bad rep among nutritionists, but that might be partly unfair for grass-fed steaks. According to research from the University of California, grass-fed beef is higher in beta-carotene, vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids than conventional beef...
Yale took third place, with a four-way tie for fourth pitting the University of Pennsylvania and MIT against the California Institute of Technology and Stanford...
...undertakes," University President Drew G. Faust said in a statement released today. Faust highlighted Lapp's "extensive expertise in budget and finance" as well as her "demonstrated success" at UC, where she oversaw a university-wide budget exceeding $18 billion. During her final year at UC, the state of California cut funding levels for the university by 20 percent, or $813 million, as it scrambled to close a looming $26 billion budget gap. Lapp and her team put together a plan that would allow the university to absorb the impact of the funding shortage. Administrators raised student fees...
...there a school that's been moving slowly and steadily up the list that may strike new readers as being surprisingly high up? Schools like Washington University and the University of Southern California have had slow and steady climbs up the national-university list by making across-the-board improvements. One school that's going to surprise people is the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. It's both a top Up and Coming school and No. 4 in the Commitment to Undergraduate Teaching [list]. That's a school that isn't one of the name brands but is up there...