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Once touted as an environmental and economic cure-all, corn ethanol has had a rough year. The collapse in grain and oil prices, preceded by overinvestment in refineries over the past few years, badly hurt ethanol producers. Meanwhile, environmentalists have steadily chipped away at ethanol's green credentials. Far from being better for the planet than gasoline, many scientists now argue that ethanol actually has a sizable carbon footprint, because when farmers in the U.S. use their land to grow corn for fuel rather than food, farmers in the developing world end up cutting down more forests to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Blow to Ethanol: Biolectricity Is Greener | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...World Report. The medical school dominated the “research” category—with a overall score of 100, versus the second-place school, Johns Hopkins, at 81. Jules L. Dienstag, Dean for Medical Education, said that she was proud but took the rankings with a grain of salt. “While we are heartened by this news, we do not believe that such ranking systems capture the full scope of the student experience,” she said. “Like all our peers, we are constantly striving to improve and augment educational...

Author: By Ellie Reilly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Business School and Medical School Top Rankings | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...countries' trans-boundary waterways, overseen by a joint commission - has survived for decades. And even though nations can be quite possessive over water (India and Bangladesh have skirmished repeatedly over the shared Mahananda River), they trade it all the time in other forms like rice and grain that require millions of gallons to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water Fight | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...There’s a very strong sense of sensuality and some sexuality throughout,” Latsky says.Within this artistic exploration, GIMP does play with its audience’s social attitudes towards disability. The exposure of disabled physicality on stage intentionally goes against the grain for audience members. “Children are always seen being told by parents not to stare,” Alliger says. But placing the disabled on stage in a celebratory way invites the audience to form a more nuanced understanding of disabled movement. “They’re given...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Gimp' Explores Disability | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...sand to cover, and Whitehead is determined not to miss a grain of it. At times his prose mimics the speed of the butterscotch Benji ladles out at his summer job scooping ice cream at Jonni Waffle. ("Is the toppings bar ready for its close-up? Let us cue the orchestra as we pan lovingly, lingeringly, over the delights in the tiny containers.") But if the slow zoom sometimes verges on the picayune, it also highlights the eternal puzzle of summer pacing. Benji and his friends can't wait to get out to Sag, but once they do, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dag! | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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