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When I tell other journalists that I cover the environment, I usually get the same reaction: you're really lucky. (I'm assuming they don't just mean because I still have a job.) After years on the back pages and the back burner, the environment has emerged as one of the major issues facing the globe today, with the attendant media attention to match. But what keeps it perpetually fresh as a subject is its scope - climate change touches on science, Washington, business, society, geopolitics, even religion, and the reporting does as well. The sheer complexity means there...
...country in the world has one. Their purpose, of course, is to backup native plant varieties. If climate conditions change or a disease threatens crops currently in use, plant breeders can dip into seed banks to try to grow new crops. The seed diversity preserved in these banks can mean the difference between feast and famine. But the banks that contain our most diverse and important collections of seeds tend to be located in developing countries, where budgets are tight and conditions are less than stable. One disaster - like the invasion of Iraq, for example, in the aftermath of which...
...rates are even higher among college students. I’ll be honest. Disordered eating is not lethal. It is not recognized as an official psychiatric disorder. And it is highly correlated with perfectionism, the single trait that best characterizes Harvard students. But this doesn’t mean that suffering from this condition is inevitable or without consequence. It took me years to realize that even if something wasn’t fatal, it could still be a far cry from innocuous. The real cost of disordered eating isn’t the fact that it can progress into...
...element of chance involved in sound production than with nature itself. “Actually, what I’m interested in is the behavior in the sounds of nature rather than the sounds themselves,” Molina says. “You can recognize what the sounds mean because they have a mode and way of singing, but you don’t know what they are going to do, because they have a completely random sequence of notes that are just there accompanying the song.”In many ways, Molina’s music draws...
...speed Internet, and 40% own a flat-screen TV. They have several credit cards each and a lot of luxury goods, but they still believe that others have more than they do. In 1970, TIME described middle America as people who "sing the national anthem at football games - and mean...