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Cambridge Public School Committee members raised several concerns at a meeting last night about a long-anticipated survey intended to address the causes of declining enrollment across the school system. The survey, conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corp., a market research firm based in Cambridge, will be carried out in two phases. In the first phase, the research firm will form 10 focus groups, consisting of teachers, parents with children in the system, parents who have withdrawn their children from the system, and parents with children enrolled in private schools. The other phase will be a random telephone survey...
Then there's regulation. Modern Corp., which runs one of New York State's largest solid-waste management facilities north of Buffalo and receives a million tons of trash a year, was already required by law to deal with its landfill odors when in 1996 it started harnessing energy from burning methane off the landfill to generate electricity. "You have this investment to begin with," says COO Gary Smith. "We wanted a way to capitalize." Today Modern provides the region with 12 megawatts, enough to power about 20,000 homes, and plans to expand to a 35-megawatt facility...
Dumping has also been valuable for Tennessee's Bouldin Corp. In 2003 the firm began taking Warren County garbage and converting it to what Bouldin calls "fluff." That's household trash ground up, with the metals removed, and heated so it's inert. Fluff is used as a peat substitute. Bouldin's new landfill project is expected to swing to profitability after it launches its first durable products next year: landscape timber and building blocks made from trash. "A few years down the line, we'll wonder why we ever put this stuff in the ground," says marketing manager Terry...
...press, though, over ephedra. The FDA received more than 800 reports of adverse effects from the Chinese weight-loss herb before it proposed limiting doses in 1997. A subsequent study tied 155 deaths to various ephedra products, but uncontrolled sales weren't banned until 2004. Utah company Neutraceutical Corp. is still arguing that lower doses are safe, but in August the firm was overruled by an appeals court...
...have a constant desire to learn.” The magazine’s first issue features the “Harvard 100,” a list of the 100 most prominent living Harvard graduates. The top three on the list are Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corp; George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President; and Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Others who made the list are Bill O’Reilly, host of the news show the O’Reilly Factor, and Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill. John Adler...