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There are other collateral problems created by industrial scale aquaculture: the destruction of coastal habitats through waste disposal, the introduction of diseases and the possible escape of exotic species that can threaten indigenous breeds. Halweil says we need to farm fish in ways that more closely "mimic the oceans," combining multiple, complementary species, including "cleaner fish" to control sea lice, for instance, as some farms already do in Norway...
...even if such testing proves reliable, drug officials must still grapple with society's changing perception of what constitutes a drug and what constitutes abuse. The Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services work together to rank drugs like ecstasy, aspirin and cocaine on a scale of five schedules, or classifications. Cocaine, for instance, is categorized as a "Schedule II" drug because of its medical use as a local anesthetic. (Other Schedule II drugs include morphine, which also poses a high risk for abuse but is recognized as medically useful. Schedule I drugs, like heroin...
...roommate throughout his time at Harvard, John W. Scott ’06, wrote in an e-mail that his roommate encouraged Scott, “a boy from a small town in South Carolina,” to “dream on a global scale,” in hopes of changing the world for the better...
Finding a way to help this most sedentary age group is more important than ever. Nearly 17% of U.S. kids are considered overweight or obese, and many more are struggling. Meanwhile, as scale numbers are climbing, school budgets for P.E. are falling. As a result, fewer than 10% of elementary schools meet the National Association for Sport and Physical Education's standard of students spending 150 minutes a week in gym class...
...this week. Rest assured you can skip Sex Signals. We’ll tell you right now, if sex signals anything, it’s that you really don’t go to Harvard. You may be accustomed to rating potential mates on a one through 10 scale, but at Harvard we operate in binary: They’re either a one or a zero, so it’s either yes or never. But trust us; this will make justifying things to your friends the next morning a whole lot easier; I mean come on, he was definitely...