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...Speed on Slow FoodI must take issue with some of Bryan Walsh's claims about the organic-food movement in "Can Slow Food Feed the World" [Sept. 15]. First, ?organic farming yields less per acre than industrial farming" only if it is done by industrial-style methods. John Jeavons' Bountiful Gardens project proves that all the food a person needs-and all the natural fertilizer needed to grow that food-can be produced on one-sixteenth of an acre if biointensive organic methods are used. Second, if all Americans ate organic food we would not need 40 million full-time...
...long will the money last? The Bush Administration is proposing that the government's mortgage purchases be spread out over two years - while speed is of the essence, the Treasury needs time to set up a fair program to evaluate just what it's buying. There is a lot of paperwork to go through: about 10% of the nation's $11 trillion in mortgages are delinquent or in foreclosure. Uncle Sam would likely hang on to some of the mortgage securities it buys for far longer before reselling them to investors, in an attempt to minimize its losses and maybe...
...need to come together. Can we react quickly enough to deal with the modern world and the rapidly changing- saying it another way, there's so much complexity, actually over-complexity, in the financial system and the speed with which money and information moves has increased. And so when these events, the chain reaction surrounding these events is quicker than in the past...
...formula seems to be working. Nearly 800 fellows as young as 18 and as old as 82 have been christened since 1981. Among their feats: slowing the speed of light (optical physicist Lene Hau, 2001), mapping the human genome (geneticist Eric Lander, 1987), penning acclaimed novels (Cormac McCarthy, 1981; the recently deceased David Foster Wallace, 1997), scheming to save our threatened fisheries (lobsterman Ted Ames, 2005) and solving Fermat's Last Theorem (mathematician Andrew Wiles, 1997). Seven have nabbed the Nobel Prize, including geneticist Barbara McClintock (1981) and former U.S. poet laureate Joseph Brodsky (1981). Others have won Pulitzers, Fields...
...police chief who tries to keep a lid on things. All suspense and mystery in the thriller builds up but quickly deflates as the plot retraces past events without illuminating important details. “Righteous Kill” seems to slow down just so it can speed up again toward a lukewarm climax. The final twist is less shocking than it is groan-inducing. There are only a few good things to be found in the extremely mediocre movie experience that is “Righteous Kill”. At the beginning of the movie, De Niro and Pacino...