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...trying to build a critical mass of integrative therapists. We are working through the nursing community, the yoga community. Right now there are 100 therapists being trained. And there is a pilot program at Beth Israel Medical Center to introduce integrative medical practices and study their impact on patients and caregivers...
...would make sense that controlling whale populations would be smart "ecosystem management," as whaling supporters put it. But a new article in the Feb. 13 issue of Science demonstrates that's hardly the case. "Essentially what we found was that...if you remove whales, it has a negligible impact on the biomass that is commercially available for fishing," says Leah Gerber, a conservation biologist at Arizona State University and the article's lead author. Translation: killing whales won't resuscitate depleted fisheries. (Read "Why the Stamford Chimp Attacked...
...models allowed the scientists to test what would happen if whale populations declined. It turned out that whale numbers had little impact on commercial fish populations, in part because the kind of sea life whales like to eat - krill, plankton - is highly unlikely to end up on your dinner plate. "The seafood that people prefer is higher on the food web than [whales' diet]," says Gerber. There's also the undeniable fact that today's whale populations are still just a fraction of what they were in the days when Captain Ahab was (unsuccessfully) whaling, yet commercial fish populations...
...undeniable: the world's commercial fisheries are in serious trouble, and they're getting worse. In new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Feb. 12, the marine ecologist William Cheung announced that climate change would have a devastating impact on the world's commercial fish and shellfish populations, including tuna, herring and prawns. Fish would flee toward the poles to escape rising temperatures, and many species would all but disappear from their familiar habitats. Many would not survive the transition - Cheung estimated that the Atlantic cod's distribution could drop...
...medical school slots in Japan, will take time despite the fact that Japan has fewer doctors and nurses than the average developed nation, as ranked by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. "It will take 10-plus years to beef up the emergency ward...before having any impact," says Kondo...