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Hacker is directing several programs as alternatives to a ban on trans fats that combat obesity and other health issues. “Golden Shoes” is a program where children search for golden-colored shoes throughout Cambridge to encourage exercise. In the Cambridge Public Schools, health progress reports are distributed to parents to get them involved in monitoring their children’s health...
Plagued by the worry that our collegiate system is not teaching students in a rigorous fashion, the report’s authors suggest a program of testing to ensure and enforce academic progress, or, in their words, “a robust culture of accountability and transparency throughout higher education.” If this sounds suspiciously like the failed No Child Left Behind Act, it’s because it takes its spirit from the same wrongheaded view of academic quality. Although words like “accountability” and “transparency?...
...Progress is often measured in small victories. For example, Nando says her group convinced a local official to refrain from opening a restaurant that featured dishes made from the area's wild birds. But they are also tackling greater challenges. Aceh's forests are the most ecologically diverse in Indonesia, but clearcutting has taken a heavy toll. FFI was able to convince the heads of six Acehnese villages that reckless logging was destroying their future...
...presented foreign contractors with certain codified standards for workers’ rights, the new program would require that companies take the extra step of giving the factories money to make certain that the maintenance of such standards is a possibility.The new measures came in response to a lack of progress in areas where a desperation for employment undercut concerns for appropriate conditions and compensation, according to the WRC’s Steffan.“We would see an erosion of improvements because of the price pressure that the factories are under,” she said...
...result, progress is maddeningly slow. And while he can't reveal details, Pbo says he'll soon be announcing in a major scientific journal the sequencing of 1 million base pairs of the Neanderthal genome. And he says he has 4 million more in the bag. Rubin, meanwhile, is also poised to publish his results, but refuses to divulge specifics. "Pbo's team has significantly more of a sequence than we do," he says. "Some of the dates will differ, but the conclusions are largely similar...