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...list of climate change's victims, you can now add the suffering Gorgonia. Scientists at Spain's Higher Council of Scientific Investigation (CSIC) have discovered that lengthening summers in the Mediterranean are having dire effects on the familiar fan-shaped coral, as well as on many other kinds of marine invertebrates. In a study published April 14 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they argue that for the Gorgonia and its kin, longer summers equal nothing short of mass death...
...Collectively, Harvard students are extremely successful in a work environment but have a dire need to develop the other aspects of a well-rounded life. Personally motivated pursuits—long conversations with friends, reading for pleasure, thought driven by curiosity and not course demands—are crucial aspects of life notably underemphasized on the Harvard campus. Given students’ unhappiness with their highly work-oriented lives, it seems obvious that much can be gained from the imposed abandonment of work for five weeks next January. Hopefully, this will give students the space to reconsider their middle-school...
...Recruit collected the data between Jan. 30 and Feb. 16, as a series of dire economic indicators painted a dismal economic outlook for Japan and major companies were laying off workers in waves. "News reports about worsened business and manpower conditions came out one after another," says Recruit spokeswoman Yuri Ito. "This survey is done around the time companies announce their recruitment plan for the following year. So some students might vote for those that plan to hire aggressively." Export-driven companies, out. Instead, "Students consider companies in industries like infrastructure and food, which are robust in a recession... companies...
...nondrug) hemp. The crop, which can be used as an alternative to cotton as well as a base for fuels and plastics, can grow with rainwater and requires no pesticides. The fact that the U.S., unlike most industrialized nations, continues to prohibit hemp deserves some serious attention in these dire times. Tim Mensching, New York City...
...notes the moral lessons implicit in these movies. They warn of radiation risk and the dangers of conducting experimental tests on diseases; they offer a satirical commentary on governments that stand idly by in the midst of an apocalypse; they blatantly attack the emergence of materialistic tendencies even under dire circumstances.While Scholzman seeks to interpret the psychology of why viewers keep watching zombie films, he also gives thought to the neurology of zombies. According to Schlozman, because the hypothalamus stimulates the drive to forage, zombies’ eternal appetite and fleshy diet should be related to a problem with this...