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...will be at the crux of the global sustainability challenge that our generation will be forced to confront in the coming years. The production of any single item of food has political and environmental costs that often dwarf its list price. For example, the greenhouse emissions from livestock production exceed those of transportation worldwide, according to a recent New York Times article by Mark Bittman...
...Just three days before the Pentagon released its budget request, the Government Accountability Office released a study into how the military buys such weapons. It did not contain good news. "The cost of designing and developing these systems could continue to exceed estimates by billions of dollars if DOD continues to employ the same acquisition practices, including those for quality, as it has in the past," it said. "Excessive scrap, rework, and repair costs, as well as reliability problems impact overall quality and could ultimately present serious consequences on a weapon system's long-term support costs and affordability...
...mercury where, for an adult [excluding women who are or may become pregnant], the potential risk will be greater than the potential benefit of omega-3s, I haven't seen any study that shows that.... If there is a theoretical limit at which potential harm from mercury might exceed omega-3s, it's probably far higher than what we're seeing now. The idea that you're going to eat a fish meal as an adult and that it's going to give you net cardiovascular harm is just not supported by the current evidence...
...larger-than-average increase in applicants was reported from the Mid-Atlantic and the South. The admissions office said it did not yet have complete statistics on the number of minority applicants this year, “but the numbers of African American and Latino applicants already exceed last year’s totals by a considerable margin...
...admissions office said it did not yet have complete statistics on the number of minority applicants this year, "but the numbers of African American and Latino applicants already exceed last year’s totals by a considerable margin...