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Branding endangered species rankles some greens, but Michael Bean, chief of the Environmental Defense Fund's wildlife program, sees it as a positive trend as the list of imperiled animals grows and other funding falls. "Potentially, it can do a lot of good," he says, "as long as there are no strings attached." Australia's Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, spent a month with the hairy-noses as an Epping caretaker. "It's absolutely terrific what Xstrata has done," says Henry, an ardent conservationist. "There's opportunities for other corporates to get involved with other species." Memo to Tasmanian devil...
...about inverted cane sugar vs. beet sugar, people seem to be forgetting that, whether soda is made with HFCS or pure cane sugar, soda is still empty calories. Even if the body processes the two differently, the difference of a few fructose molecules is not going to reverse the trend of American obesity. It’s up to consumers, and, more importantly, the food writing community to call attention to the fact that this solution is merely a glossy bandage. It’s great that we’re finally talking about food issues, but I don?...
...cutting of one’s nose was most often associated to adultery, homosexuality, and other sex crimes. The nose was also supposed to reveal whether or not a woman was still a virgin, based on the thickness of her cartilage. Anecdotes like this, revealing a common and fascinating trend in the medieval understanding and cultural depiction of the body, provide much of the book’s worth, which ultimately resides in Groebner’s masterful knowledge of the mores of the Middle Ages. Considerable attention is also given to the emblematically horrific depiction of the Passion...
...self-selective and not diverse,” she said. “Not socio-economically diverse, not geographically diverse, not class-diverse.” Martin Zogran, an assistant professor of urban design at the GSD, noted that the school is working to incorporate this new trend of inter-disciplinary environmentalism into its curriculum. This year, the school introduced a Sustainable Design concentration area in their Master of Design Studies program. Zenobia Meckley, a GSD student studying landscaping, said that the panel was one of many efforts that the school had of late made to engage with the environmentalist...
...rise, if there’s anything to numb the pain.”In addition, every restaurant interviewed reported a strong Valentine’s Day weekend, as diners spent with abandon and tipped generously.“What we’ve seen as a trend overall in restaurants is that people are still doing the special occasions and the Saturday nights,” said Michael J. Mooney, the general manager of Rialto, an Italian restaurant that ranks among the Square’s swankiest.But weeknight business is another story.“Less people are going...