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...viable but has been hailed as a kind of magic weed. Once again, the EPA used rosy life-cycle assumptions to conclude that next-generation biofuels will reduce billions of tons of emissions over the next century, ultimately reducing our oil consumption by 11%. If those draft conclusions become final, they will commit the U.S. to an additional 21 billion gallons of biofuels...
Another group received acupuncture at standardized points, which experienced practitioners agree can help the majority of back-pain sufferers. A final group received the toothpick treatment. These patients were poked with toothpicks inserted through the acupuncture needle tube at the standard points - but unlike with traditional acupuncture, practitioners did not penetrate the patient's skin. Instead, they pricked and then twirled the toothpick to simulate a needle going...
Coming in to the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Team Race Championships this past weekend, Harvard had achieved two-thirds of its yearly objective. It had previously qualified for the ICSA Women’s National Championships and the ICSA/Gill National Dinghy Championships. The final piece was qualifying for the ICSA Team Race National Championships in San Francisco the final weekend of May, a spot it could earn with a top-three finish at the two-day affair this weekend...
...remains from the Second Temple (built in the 1st century B.C.) that many say is the historic heart of Judaism. Later in the afternoon, the German Pontiff led a Mass in the ancient Kidron Valley just outside the Old City of Jerusalem, where some Christians and Jews believe the Final Judgment will take place. (See pictures of Pope Benedict's trip to the Holy Land...
This was the second time Benedict, 82, has gotten decidedly mixed reviews on his handling of a Holocaust-related visit. He had visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in 2006 and poignantly asked, "Where was God?" when the Nazis carried out Hitler's Final Solution. But the same speech hit several sour notes in the ears of Jewish leaders, as the Pope failed to cite anti-Semitism as a cause of the genocide. Instead, he wondered if Christianity wasn't ultimately Hitler's final target, and summarily disposed of the complicated moral question of German society's "collective responsibility" by blaming...