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...study released yesterday blasts U.S. colleges for failing to educate students about American history and its “founding principles.” But the survey, conducted by a conservative group, gives relatively good marks to Harvard, with seniors here scoring higher than students at any of the other 49 institutions studied...
Kalluk and his people will just have to adjust, but the polar bears may not be able to. A recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) predicts that shrinking sea ice will mean a two-thirds reduction in their population by midcentury. Not even strict adherence to the Kyoto accord on limiting greenhouse gases would stop an Arctic meltdown, which means the Arctic, like nowhere else on Earth, is a place where efforts to mitigate global warming have yielded to full-bore adaptation to its impact. That process is freighted with irony. With gas and oil prices near historic...
...East Greenland Rift Basins at 31.4 billion bbl. of "oil equivalent," mostly in the form of natural gas. (That would be the equivalent of about four years of U.S. oil consumption.) While the assessment of the region won't be finished until next year, Don Gautier, one of the survey's principal investigators, says, "there's no doubt that certain geologic provinces in the Arctic have significant oil and gas reserves." Some of the most attractive are in the Barents Sea. In Russian waters, east of Norway's Snohvit deposit, lies the Shtokman gas field, thought to be 10 times...
Officials supplement and cross-check the survey's results with other, quantifiable, verifiable data like the number of drug-related arrests and drug seizures in a particular area. Another research tool, known as the Drug Abuse Warning Network, or DAWN, tracks the number of emergency-room visits and drug overdoses throughout the country. Using figures like these, officials determine where and how funding will be allocated throughout the country, Compton says. But these numbers fail to account for those drug dealers and users who have managed to avoid doctors and police...
...nation's most prevalent illegal drug problem, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. But in tracking drugs like OxyContin, also known as "hillbilly heroin," officials must first distinguish drug abuse from mere "medical misuse," Compton says. Officials actually had to modify the NSDUH survey after realizing that some methamphetamine users failed to report using the drug because they were taking it with a prescription...