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...others dismiss the survey, saying its findings reflect its designers’ conservative views. ISI’s site says the institute aims to imbue college students with “a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society.” The institute’s president, T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., served as President Ronald Reagan’s top domestic policy adviser...
...smaller pelagic, or open-ocean, fish. "Aquaculture's current heavy reliance on wild fish for feed carries substantial ecological risks," says Roz Naylor, a leading scholar on the subject at Stanford University's Center for Environmental Science and Policy. Unless the industry finds alternatives to using pelagic fish to sustain fish farms, says Naylor, the aquaculture industry could end up depleting an essential food source for many other species in the marine food chain...
...Tina Ye, a Tufts senior, was awarded the contract—$1,500 to be paid in two installments—after proposing the lowest bid. Ye said yesterday that her ability to do the project so cheaply stemmed from the fact that she does not yet have to sustain herself through her professional income. “I’m a student, I’m learning the trade and because of that I’m willing to accept a lower fee,” said Ye, who added that she was aiming...
...memory of that image endured. Resolving never to relive such bitter experiences, Asian governments have since adopted fiscal, monetary and exchange-rate policies to sustain large trade surpluses. These policies create their own set of international and domestic problems, but they have also produced a situation in which Asian countries are now some of the largest creditors in the world, rather than the debtors they were back in 1997. This is one reason that many see Asia playing a role in the way out of the current financial mess. The massive trade surpluses of Asian countries have accumulated, in large...
...reassure a nation that a light shines at the end of the tunnel. But it has been widely known by everyone in Washington - and, no doubt, by the field commanders of the various enemy formations America confronts in Iraq, who also watch CNN - that the U.S. could simply not sustain the troop levels of the surge much beyond next spring without seriously damaging its military. The drawdown, in other words, is not necessarily a sign of progress; it was inevitable given the current size of America's military...