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Cage-free farms, by contrast, are smaller and spread out to reduce environmental impact. The cage-free farm that HUDS has said it would use, Pete & Gerry’s, is U.S. Department of Agiculture Organic Approved, meaning that it does not use irradiated materials or genetically modified organisms, and only feeds 100 percent organic feed to its hens. Furthermore, the new facility would be closer to Cambridge, reducing transport carbon emissions and naturally extending HUDS’s existing “buy local” campaign...
...students may even notice a taste improvement. Dartmouth College switched to Pete & Gerry’s cage-free eggs in part after a blind taste test found that students preferred their flavor over that of caged eggs...
...Also in response to Iglesias' report, Sen. Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, acknowledged on Monday that he had contacted Iglesias in October 2006 to ask about his investigation into an alleged Democratic kickback scheme. But Domenici also said that he never threatened or pressured Iglesias, though he had long sought his dismissal. The Justice Department confirmed this week that Domenici had called Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his principal deputy four times to complain about Iglesias' behavior, inquiring whether he was "up to the job." As the furor has intensified, a Washington watchdog group this week called...
...MacArthur ‘genius’ award, joins the ranks of Wendy Kopp, who founded Teach For America as a senior at Princeton and who won the two-year-old award last February. “Dr. Paul Farmer, is a hero here,” said Pete DeLisle, director of Austin College’s Posey Leadership Institute, which partners with the college to deliver the award, “we’re very proud to be associated with him.” Farmer was travelling to receive the prize and could not be reached for comment...
...Harvey's decision on Thursday to cashier the two-star general in charge of Walter Reed and replace him, temporarily, with a three-star general who had run the hospital before him. Harvey, who had served as Army secretary since late 2004, was succeeded in an acting capacity by Pete Geren, currently the under secretary of the Army...