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...since asked DuPont and seven other companies that use PFOA to phase out the chemical. Although DuPont disputes the classification as a carcinogen and won't stop making Teflon, the company has pledged that by 2015, it will reduce the amount of PFOA used to make the coating and will guarantee that the chemical won't be released into the environment from DuPont manufacturing plants...
That's part of a national trend. Zoo directors routinely phase out species that don't thrive in the local environment. The ultimate example: the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, outside Tucson, which houses 300 animal species and 1,200 kinds of plants on 21 acres of desert. Unlike conventional zoos, the museum doesn't even try to take on species that are not native to the area because its mission is not to give visitors a snapshot of wildlife everywhere but to give the full story of a single ecology. "It has a completely different mind-set than most zoos...
...early phase of our review, some members of the Faculty, myself included, saw a simple distribution system as the best solution. (My one nagging doubt was that this kind of requirement is in place at Yale, the institution where “veritas” needs to be supplemented by “lux.”) In its most common form, the distributional scheme requires students to take courses in each of the three traditional divisions: the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences...
...chaired the 1997 University Physical Planning Committee and later the Allston Life Task Force, in an e-mail. “The basic goals are set, and the planning has a momentum of its own now.”But though the outgoing president may have pushed the first phase of Allston planning past the point of no return, professors say that further development will almost surely lapse without Summers’ guidance, if only to leave room for initiatives by the new president. And some professors say Allston construction may be delayed until donors can be assured of stability...
...next phase of research, the object became keeping cholesterol levels in the blood under control and not necessarily keeping the cholesterol out of the diet. But how to do it? Again the key seemed to be eating less red meat, cream and butter, but it was based not so much on cholesterol as on saturated fat. Reason: saturated fat increases blood cholesterol. So eggs, high in cholesterol but not in saturated fat, were taken off the forbidden list, except for those people with the most serious cholesterol problems...