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Mercury contamination is a pervasive problem that must be tackled at the supermarket and the source [Sept. 11]. Whole Foods, Safeway and Wild Oats have voluntarily posted government warnings about mercury in fish. But other companies should follow suit and let customers know which fish contain high levels of mercury. Few people are aware that chlorine plants emit more mercury on average than coal-fired power plants. Technology to eliminate mercury in chlorine processes is already used by 90% of the industry, but six plants still use and release mercury unnecessarily. Mercury release could be cut substantially if they...
Steve-O and I were both in a llama suit walking around in a pen with wild boars, and all of a sudden we felt something pushing against us. I looked around, and an elk had mounted...
...table, the driver of one of the shuttles, Jack M. Garvey, 47, confronted junior cornerback James Velissaris. Velissaris told The Crimson afterward that Garvey punched him in the chin before junior Dan Lane came over and shoved Garvey to the ground.Garvey was dismissed from his job, and later filed suit against the University. He told The Crimson that he had only pushed Velissaris, but did not deny starting a physical confrontation, saying he feared Velissaris was going to hit him with the table. A pre-existing medical condition, Garvey said, would have made an injury particularly harmful.After the incident, Harvard...
...turns out, both movies and TV shows are being encoded in files that better suit TV screens. All of the TV shows on iTunes are now available in a higher-resolution format. Originally, episodes of The Office were around 110MB in size, and had pictures that were 320 pixels wide; the same episodes, sold at the same price, are now around 240MB, and are 640 pixels wide. (Note: while the files are 640x480 in resolution, widescreen movies and TV shows are letterboxed, so they actually have a height of something considerably less than 480 pixels...
...think they formed the way our own Jupiter formed...far from their star, and subsequent to their formation, they moved in close to their star,” Charbonneau said. Luckily for Earthlings, our many-mooned companion in this solar system didn’t follow suit. “If Jupiter had marched in early on, we wouldn’t have a planet to live on,” Charbonneau said. With two planetary discoveries published within a week of each other, and a handful detected in previous years, the CfA is positioning itself at the forefront...