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...grain to feed the animals, which requires fossil-fuel-based fertilizers, pesticides, transportation," says Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma. "Grass-fed beef has a much lighter carbon footprint." Indeed, although grass-fed cattle may produce more methane than conventional ones (high-fiber plants are harder to digest than cereals, as anyone who has felt the gastric effects of eating broccoli or cabbage can attest), their net emissions are lower because they help the soil sequester carbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...performance of the economy is directly affecting their lives. Some call it “kitchen table economics” or “economics light.” The constant bombardment of dreary economic news loaded with obscure facts, numbers, and forecasts leaves the average American unable to digest what can be useful information...

Author: By Patrick Jean Baptiste | Title: Ignorance is Not Bliss | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...allegations that she had obtained $80,000 from two property developers to help her lover set up a café and that Peter Robinson, upon learning of the deal, failed to report it. Now that the Evangelical base of Robinson's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has had time to digest the lurid headlines, the political fallout begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Northern Ireland's Sex Scandal Break the Peace? | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

...gain or is a result of it, but the findings suggest that a "gut profile" could potentially serve as a diagnostic tool for identifying who might have a propensity for obesity. If, for instance, your gut environment contains a preponderance of Firmicutes, then your body may be predisposed to digest calories in a way that leads to greater fat storage. In fact, in Gordon's earlier work with identical twins of different weights, he found that the obese twin tended to have more Firmicutes colonies than the leaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Cause of Obesity: The Bacteria in Your Gut? | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...through iTunes. And the vook is not just an example of a technological innovation that could bring more information to more people; it’s also a product that caters to the modern reader, an individual who seems to have lost the stamina required to sit down and digest the entire contents of a book...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: A Look at the Vook | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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