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...distavore meal was more a smorgasbord than a smart fusion of cultures, but I still ate the way only a very rich person could have dined just 15 years ago. The local-food movement is deeply Luddite, part of the green lobby that measures improvement by self-denial more than by actual impact?considering shipping food in containers is often more energy-efficient than a local farmer trucking small amounts that are then purchased on a separate weekend farmers'-market trip you take in your SUV. So I'm going to keep buying food from my foreign neighbors. Because...
Lyles, who pursued biology and environmental studies in college, is impassioned about an increasingly pernicious environmental problem caused by ballast water, which cargo and other ships take on, carry and release to help stabilize and balance them. "There's a smorgasbord of bacteria, viruses, crustaceans and small fish in ballast," Lyles says. And when flushed into strange waters, these organisms can take over, with devastating effect. An infestation of zebra mussels began to radically change the Great Lakes ecosystem in the 1980s, and the MSX virus depleted the oyster population of Chesapeake Bay in the 1950s. Scientists have traced both...
...Incidentally, this is the second time in a week that environmentalists are clamoring for a bloated bipartisan bill with terrible ecological consequences because some of the bloat was for them; last week, they cheered when Congress overrode President Bush's veto of a pork-stuffed smorgasbord of Army Corps of Engineers water projects because it included a few projects for the Everglades. Next time you hear a green group complain that America's farm policies and water resources policies are degrading America's natural treasures - the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay, the Colorado River, the Everglades - ask whether that...
Confronted with a smorgasbord of “drawings,” one can’t help but wish that the scope of “Drawing: A Broader Definition” was slightly narrower, or at least more focused. Tucked away within the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the small in-house exhibition takes a kaleidoscopic view of its subject, and spans six millennia and nearly as many continents in 66 objects and 2 rooms. The show is now on display at the MFA through May 4, 2008. In the exhibition’s introductory text, Clifford...
There are some movies that should never have been made. An imdb.com search of the 100 lowest-rated films reveals a smorgasbord of such unmediated disasters: “The Tony Blair Witch Project,” “From Justin to Kelly,” “Phat Girlz” and “Gigli” to name a few. I am confident that when “30 Days of Night” has been released long enough for a handful of helpless viewers to suffer though it, the movie will edge...