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...methane, much of it stored under pressure in the form of methane hydrates, can begin to break free. Unlike the permafrost on land, says Shakhova, soil under the sea floor is always hovering at close to the melting point because of its proximity to unfrozen seawater. Anthropogenic (that is, human-caused) warming may be the last straw...
...keeping the nation's food supply safe, which means that oversight in many cases falls through the gaps between the FDA, CDC and USDA. The USDA, for instance, is responsible for the safety of meat and poultry; the FDA handles other cases of food contamination; and the CDC tracks human illness in general...
Marcel E. Moran ’11, a former Crimson associate editorial chair, is a human evolutionary biology concentrator in Eliot House...
...observers agree that it marks a rapid acceleration of the pragmatism that has been steadily influencing French policy toward Moscow and that it's a signal that Paris is ready to interact with Russia without the usual qualifiers. Gone are Sarkozy's early promises to make a respect of human rights and democracy central to all French foreign relations. Also gone is Sarkozy's former mocking of realpolitik as a political cop-out of cynical diplomats without principles. France is now eager to work with Russia on common security and economic interests - and it doesn't want to hear...
Such stories remain mostly confined to the media outlets of human rights and labor organizations, whose members operate under perpetual fear of arrest and intimidation. Iran's official media continue to portray Iran as a success story. Indeed, so does President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. However, at Ahmadinejad's most recent press conference, in mid-February, a reporter asked the President about the omission of third-quarter GDP growth figures from the latest report by Iran's Central Bank. Ahmadinejad simply dismissed the importance of interim figures as "mere estimates" and claimed that current growth stood at 6.9%. Significantly, the newspaper World...