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...reason governments have been slow to respond to the environmental crisis is that Earth is still churning out plenty of goods--enough fiber, grain and fish to support 6 billion people. Many are malnourished, of course, but that's primarily a matter of bad distribution. A closer look at the trends, though, is disturbing. PAGE points out that there is a difference between current production and capacity, which is the amount of grain or fish the globe can produce indefinitely. Fishing fleets, the report says, are 40% larger than the ocean can sustain. At that rate, more fisheries are bound...
...assertions being made about the disease-fighting capabilities of various foods and supplements," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "And most of those claims remain totally unsubstantiated by long-term studies." In that light, it's important to take every new proclamation about diet with a grain of salt, Smith continues. "Before we allow our hopes for disease prevention to run away with our common sense, we need to see hard evidence to support all the claims that are made...
...strongest antibiotics currently available. But although there is hope that Zyvox can put a halt to the mutation process - by blocking growth much earlier in the bacteria's life cycle, it works in a different way than its predecessors - medical experts are taking the news with a grain of salt. "The truth is we don't know who'll win the race," says TIME science reporter Janice Horowitz. "Will we be able to stay ahead of the bacteria, or will they mutate to be stronger than anything we can produce...
...Tidewater Grain at Common Ground: intense rock from this Baltimore band...
...perhaps one of the best passages, a Schulze narrator, Danny, is frozen by the singular event of looking into "crocodile eyes," the grainy veneer of a cheap old Stasi desk. "Every time it happens, I promise myself I'm going to talk to the others about this amoeba-like grain in the veneer," he says. "We all have to spend our time staring at these lines and squiggles, which at the far left look like a crocodile's eye. But nobody ever says anything, and I keep forgetting it, too, like some bad dream...