Word: smithsonian
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That question is a long way from being answered, but a study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes a small step in that direction. A team of researchers used 22 years' worth of carefully accumulated measurements of hardwood forests in and near the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, in Edgewater, Md., to show that their growth has accelerated significantly. On average, the stands were expanding at a rate of two extra tons of mass per acre per year, by the end of the study - the equivalent of a single two-foot-diameter tree...
Stiglitz came to Cambridge after stopping in New York and speaking at the Smithsonian Institute and the World Bank in Washington, D.C., according to Rachel Salzman, a publicist for W.W. Norton, Stiglitz’s publisher...