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...disciplined and unappealing," a prominent Democrat told me. "It's a real problem." It is more than that: a campaign that will help determine whether Democrats have the expansive soul to become a majority party once more. Liberals hunt down heretics, Michael Kinsley once wrote, while conservatives happily chase converts. Webb is a convert in a party that mistrusts converts. His candidacy is a litmus test for a party that loves litmus tests...
...spring of 1956, the Faculty voted to convert the Biochemical Sciences concentration into an honors-only concentration, sparking extensive discussion among professors and students. The changes in the biochemical sciences fifty years ago in some ways mirror the changes that the concentration is undergoing today. BACK TO THE FUTURE The Thimann Plan, named after Professor of Biology Kenneth V. Thimann who chaired the committee that reviewed the concentration, would take effect for the Class of 1959. Ninety percent of the Biochemical Sciences concentration was comprised of premeds, only around half of whom qualified for the honors track. As a result...
...partners made a deal not to enumerate the "carrots"? and "sticks" before a European delegation presents them privately to Iranian leaders.? But they are known to include the enticement of a light water power reactor - whose radioactive fuel is hard to convert to use in a bomb - and the specter of? punishments ranging from? bank account freezes and travel bans to a full-scale economic embargo...
Organic-yogurt sales are limited only by the growth in organic-milk production, which is climbing 20% to 30% annually. "It's the 10,000-lb. cow in my life," says Hirshberg. To find enough organic milk, Stonyfield Farm subsidizes farmers as they convert to organic production and offers price guarantees on the milk it buys. "Conventional-milk pricing has fallen to levels not seen since the 1970s," says Hirshberg. "It's a disastrous situation for farmers with a cost structure based on 2006 energy costs." The only silver lining, he says, is that it has helped some dairy farmers...
...fathom anyone in their right mind saying they wanted to drink sewage," he says. "But drinking highly treated water is a completely different kettle of fish." Given that desalination also uses reverse osmosis-a process so precise it can remove chemicals and contaminants at the molecular level-to convert sea water to potable water, Leslie can't understand why the same technology, when combined with another disinfecting process using ultraviolet light and peroxide, is distrusted for purifying sewage water: "If we can't get something as straightforward as this sorted out, how will we work out other environmental challenges...