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...those who face losing their farms to development. I certainly understand the temptation and the frequent financial need to take the money and run. This issue, however, has an important element not mentioned in your article. Too often it is the best land that is developed. For food and fiber production, all land was not created equal. If our production from land is going to be forced into more intensively farmed areas, it is in the interest of all to keep the best land in production and manage development with that in mind. DWIGHT R. CHERRY Willard, Ohio...
Even at that, you don't want too much fruit juice to displace other foods in your child's diet. Otherwise, he or she will miss out on fiber, vitamins and other nutrients in whole fruit, and calcium from milk, yogurt and other dairy products. One final caution: the USDA's food guide does not apply to toddlers under the age of 2, who have their own very specific nutritional needs. Soon enough, though, they'll be lobbying you for something from the chip group and something from the chocolate group...
...pursue medicine over music. During World War II, he was captured by the Italians after his ship was sunk and got himself tossed into solitary for helping other prisoners escape. Setting up a practice in obstetrics and gynecology after the war, he raised professional eyebrows by pioneering a newfangled fiber-optic device called a laparoscope to perform minimally invasive abdominal surgery. In 1966, to help women with blocked Fallopian tubes, a major cause of infertility, he teamed up with Edwards, a Cambridge physiologist who had developed a way to fertilize human eggs...
...part to support an increasingly wired country. But a growing number of small towns have decided to take matters into their own hands. Some are forming cooperatives to string their own wire. Others are pulling strings. In Lusk, Wyo., a cajoling and far-sighted mayor was able to get fiber-optic cable laid into his town of 1,600 and give its two schools access to a T1 line (and Lusk a starring role in Microsoft's ads on TV). Town leaders see it as a matter of survival. "We want our kids to come back here," says Twila Barnette...
...times higher resolution than high-frequency ultrasound. Another advantage is that it's fiber optic-based and can be inserted into tiny catheters or endoscopes that can be maneuvered to virtually any place in the body. It's minimally invasive," Brezinski said...