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It’s not often that Harvard has an opportunity to beat the European Union (EU). But dissociating itself from eggs laid by hens raised in inhumanely small cages may present an opportunity. One of the cruelest products of modern factory farms, eggs laid by caged hens will be banned by the UE by 2012. Now a group of students is urging Harvard to go cage-free first, and they have amassed almost 1,000 student signatures in support. We agree: For ethical and environmental reasons, Harvard dining halls should switch to serving only cage-free eggs...
Battery hens, as hens raised in small cages are called, are amongst the worst abused animals in modern agriculture. Exempted from the federal Animal Welfare Act, they are packed in tiers of wire cages, sometimes with less space to move about than a letter-sized piece of paper...
...investigation into the DNA of dinosaurs has indicated that theropods—a class of carnivorous dinosaur including the velociraptor and the Tyrannosaurus rex—had a genome smaller than that of most vertebrates and other dinosaurs but about the same size as those of modern birds...
They were able to look at the pockets in dinosaur fossils where cells used to live and compare them to that of modern vertebrates...
...group of hereditary and appointed peers is responsible for proposing, amending and revising British laws. On Wednesday, with MPs' resolve seemingly strengthened by allegations that such peerages had been dangled in front of political donors, the House of Commons voted to replace the House of Lords with a shockingly modern invention: a fully elected upper chamber...