Word: monitors
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...ready for a dry summer. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, half the continental U.S. is currently experiencing abnormal dryness or drought. Over the past four years, migrating drought patterns have spread toward the Eastern shores, crippling crops, shrinking lakes and drying up wells this month in eight Southern states, particularly Alabama. Meanwhile, the Northeast and much of the Midwest have been spared...
...involved in sourcing organic produce from all over the globe: "Air freighting is an extremely relevant... concern, with regard to climate change, because organic farming is known to have a lower carbon footprint than non-organic farming," said Robin Maynard, spokesman for the U.K. Soil Association, Britain's biggest monitor of organic farming. "Wasteage also applies to all major retailers. There are horrifying figures on what the U.K. throws away...
Sources: New York Times (2); China Daily (2); Christian Science Monitor (2); New York Times...
...Charbonneau searches for extrasolar planets by looking for signs of planets crossing in front of stars outside our solar system. Through a series of NASA-funded telescopes located in southern California that monitor 10,000 stars at a time, Charbonneau and his researchers scour the data, measuring the brightness of the stars. If a star is dark, it could be due to an eclipse from a planet in orbit around...
...only occasionally scan the Crimson editorial pages to see our overwrought campus political culture in action. To follow up on his banal campaign promises, UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 wrote a February op-ed proposing an e-mail “hotline” to monitor more close the quality of teaching fellows. To record her unwavering advocacy for greater “gender equality,” Dems President Brigit M. Helgen ’08 authored a pair of ho-hum editorials supporting more women in leadership positions. And, most self-serving...