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...Operations, the price of chicken increased 11 percent, flour 18 percent, and milk a prohibitive 30 percent during the winter menu cycle alone. This inflation—recently the source of countless Economist and New York Times articles—is the symptom of many converging problems. The rising costs of oil has consequences fo the food industry: it’s more expensive to plant, harvest, ship, cook and heat facilities. Populations in countries like India and China are becoming wealthier and eating more meat. Since animals are higher on the food chain, it takes more pure vegetation...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B-Coop and the Case of the Missing Deliciousness | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...production has been specifically made by four dedicated costume designers. Cut from various poly-blend fabrics intended to mimic silks, linens, and satins, the costumes were designed to create an effect onstage that is just as lavish and radiant as the imagined originals while remaining conscious of cost. According to Keun Jung Cho, a costume designer who is also a first-year student at the Graduate School of Design, the flowing robes and bright colors are inspired by both traditional Chinese dance and films like Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” and Zhang Yimou?...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Calaf, Colors, and Cloth | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

Harvard Medical School professor George M. Church foresees a future in which the average individual can not only get his or her genetic code sequenced at an affordable cost, but also use this information to create a personal risk profile for common diseases...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Prof To Expand Genome Database | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...What they're proposing, even if they could get over the legal hurdles, would amount to the largest public works project in the history of the Southeast," says Littlefield. "A wildly conservative estimate would put the cost at about $200 billion. There are simple, far more cost-effective solutions to their problems instead of the Georgia legislature going off on some Don Quixote quest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The (Water) War Between the States | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...failure to appropriate any funds this year to the $20 billion multi-national fusion power project (ITER) being constructed in southern France. The landmark R&D project is aimed at demonstrating the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion power, and the U.S. has pledged to cover 10% of the cost over 10 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using Scientists as Diplomats | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

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