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...This is organic gardening, not rocket science.' RUSS GEORGE, chief executive of Planktos, a California "ecorestoration" company that plans to plant large fields of carbon dioxide-eating plankton at sea-the first this month near the Galápagos Islands and in the South Pacific-to mitigate global warming. Some scientists question the scheme's efficacy, and believe it may even increase greenhouse gases through the organisms' potential release of methane and nitrous oxide...
...shot it in Sever. The project uses a lot of different media, crayon, paint, newspaper, cutouts, photographs,” she says. “It’s a comic, fairytale piece about two animals that are friends and go off on an adventure across the sea.”Olken entered a fictional piece titled “There Will Be Time,” which stars Nathan J. Dern ’07 of “Beauty and the Geek” fame, who is also Olken’s roommate...
...five arms of the brittle star are covered by tiny lenses that, like transition sunglasses, are able to regulate their pigmentation in order to collect the right amount of light. Joanna Aizenberg, a materials scientist who is joining the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) faculty in July, is devising methods to apply the principles of the underwater animal’s superior lens system to man-made optics.“It is really stealing the principle from biology,” she says.Aizenberg, a 47-year-old mother of two who emigrated from Russia in 1991, comes...
...that the murders should not be politicized and that solving the crime must be left to the state. Certainly, at the funeral for the two victims, mourners vowed to heed their leaders' calls. But the true sentiment of the crowd was revealed as the coffins were carried on a sea of upturned palms from the mosque to the adjacent cemetery. "Don't worry, Ziad, your blood will not be spilled in vain," they chanted, and "There is no God but God, and Nasrallah is the enemy...
...swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat and making bombs from clay pots, gunpowder and tar, Smith fought as a young mercenary in wars across France, the Netherlands and southeast Europe to the edge of the Ottoman Empire. Captured and sold into slavery, he wound up at a remote Black Sea military outpost, where a Turkish officer shaved Smith's head and riveted an iron ring around his neck. "A dog could hardly have lived to endure" the routine beatings and starvation rations that followed, Smith wrote in his colorful and epic autobiography...