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...cotton growers are correct in saying they are not alone in the subsidy sweepstakes. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, rich nations spend more than $280 billion a year on agricultural "producer support." The U.S. is a piker compared with the European Union, which, when noncash payments and other aid are added in, spends more than three times as much coddling its farmers. World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern estimates that a European cow receives $2.50 a day in subsidies, while 75% of Africans live on less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farm Fight | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...newly proposed legislation aims to establish.The amendment, which is being proposed by UC leaders, calls for the creation of an independent Student Events Committee (SEC), whose job description sounds remarkably similar to that of the current CLC. We have little reason to believe that the SEC will substantially correct the failings of its predecessor, and we suggest instead that the proposed funding for the SEC be disseminated among House Committees (HoCos) and the First Year Social Committee (FYSC), as well as perhaps the ever-needy prefect program. Given the recent successes of the Office of the Dean of the College...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Don’t Clone the CLC | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...increase in general feedback of condom breakage.” Other schools, including Yale and University of Pennsylvania, distribute LifeStyles condoms as well. Students’ vocal concerns over Airs’ ungrounded comments demonstrate the need for increased awareness about condom safety issues. It is correct condom usage, and not the LifeStyles condom brand, that is most important in practicing safe sex. Putting condoms on correctly, keeping them in a good place (not a wallet), and treating condoms gently, are all tips provided by UHS for safe condom use. Condoms are distributed each week in the houses on Mondays...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: A Safe LifeStyle | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

...idea that there's a serotonin deficiency that explains depression is such a gross oversimplification as to be completely misleading," Jureidini says. "A lot of doctors and others are prone to wishful thinking. It'd be nice if this was all scientific and we could give a drug to correct a chemical imbalance and nobody had to think about how complicated it is to become depressed and what the reasons might be for it . . . But it doesn't work like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Pills | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...Beddoe visited a G.P., who suspected postnatal depression and handed her a trial pack of Zoloft. "His words to me were, 'They're completely safe, very effective and only work on people with depression.' If he were to take them, he said, they'd do nothing because they just correct chemical imbalance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Pills | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

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