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...game." Matthews does not publish brochures touting his prospective All-Americans, as some schools do to garner votes for their stars in post-season honors races ("I'd be fired if I did!" he says), and he does not sit in on interviews with Harvard players to gently steer the conversation away from delicate areas. He thinks the primary1
...report lays much of the blame for the U.S.'s difficulties on American reluctance to steer economic policy toward more stimulus. The OECD economists worry that the "weak picture" they see in the U.S. could spread to other parts of the world. If the U.S. downturn begins to bite deeply into imports, some other countries could be pulled farther down...
...spills, strip mining and other environmental problems that even expensive technology cannot completely control. Ford writes that the environmental movement has "matured" enough to go along with these compromises. Whether that will prove to be the case depends in large part on the President's ability to steer the middle course that he now seems to have chosen...
...What I'm basically concerned with is making more grain available," Mayer says. "You feed 20 calories worth of grain to a steer to get five calories back in the form of meat. In America, we use over 2000 pounds of cereal per person per year, only 150 of which are consumed as cereal--the rest is converted into animal products. In China, they use 400 pounds of cereal per person, 350 of which are consumed as cereal. This means that the average American consumes over five times as much cereal as the average Chinese--and to no great good...
...whole oceans. The monsters are V.L.C.C.s and U.L.C.C.s (for very large and ultra-large crude carriers), huge oil tankers that already range from 200,000 tons burden up toward 500,000 tons. Such ships are so long that they have been rammed at night by smaller vessels trying to steer through the gap between their bow lights and stern lights. They will soon be bigger still. The million-tonner is on the way, close to a third of a mile long and so deep that Notre Dame, Chartres and Reims cathedrals could fit into its tank space with only...