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Were people simply to eat more fish that live lower down in the food chain, it would mean significant ecological pluses with no real diminution in human health benefits. That calculus may already be helping to recharge the allure of the modest shellfish, including the oyster, which is the target of reseeding campaigns from Long Island Sound to Puget Sound, where it has been most successful. Not only are oysters, along with other mollusks, good for you - oysters are freakishly high in zinc - they feed themselves...
Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75 and the Federal Open Market Committee voted to slash the target federal funds rate, the overnight rate at which banks can lend to each other, by half a percentage point yesterday to four-and-three-quarters percent—a move that was met with moderate approval from Harvard’s economists. In a statement, the Fed said that “the tightening of credit conditions has the potential to intensify the housing correction and to restrain economic growth more generally,” and lowered the rate...
...going to make each and every game that much harder.” Hahn, who has delivered many miraculous saves throughout the course of the season, agreed with Hoff on the desire of opposing teams to dethrone the Crimson. “Every game we kind of have a target on our chest,” Hahn said. “It kind of raises the bar a bit, so we have to come out every day and play really well.” So far, Harvard has risen to the challenge, but this weekend brings a new type...
...South African rugby has another promise to keep, and victory alone won't do it. The Springboks were once among the most powerful symbols of the nation's apartheid regime and a prime target of the international sports boycott aimed at ending white rule. Then, in 1995, one year after Nelson Mandela's election as President inaugurated democratic majority rule, South Africa hosted the Rugby World Cup - and won. As tens of thousands of fans - almost all of them white - erupted in the stands, Mandela donned a Springbok jersey and went onto the field to hug the team's captain...
...half million votes in 2000, won by 3 million the next time around. He also took virtually every state Moore campaigned in. So the only suspense in the movie is how Moore will somehow claim victory. He does it, at the end, by noting that young people, his target audience, voted in record numbers, and that they were the only age group to go for Kerry. That's impressive, Pyrrhically, until you recall that Moore's stated purpose in making Fahrenheit 9/11 was to end the Bush regime. Mission not accomplished...