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...Senate hearing last June, Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) official Randy Pomponio, said that the extent of damage is not yet known: "We are just beginning to understand and assign value to these ecological services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Virginia, a Battle Over Mountaintop Mining | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...Proteins don’t have a moral valence. They have functions that are either adaptive or not and it just functions differently in different settings,” Goldstein said. “Now that we understand the settings better and are consequently in a better position to understand how to treat and modulate, the protein may be providing some protective function and important biological functions that we previously didn’t appreciate...

Author: By Shalini Pammal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Role Found For Disease Protein | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

Despite the general bias toward breast-feeding, mothers like Byrd say pumping was the only feeding option that made the first years of their newborns' lives manageable. "People need to understand that after breast-feeding from the breast and bottle-feeding with formula, there is a viable third option for feeding your infant - and that's exclusively pumping," Byrd says. "And all mothers should have a right to choose this option and receive the support and care they deserve from their doctors and families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mothers Who Opt for Breast Milk, Not Breast-Feeding | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...like Oxford is directed at ensuring that conclusions are based on generalizations across many individuals, many samples, many populations. What Jane Goodall did was to stress the interest and the value in looking at individual differences. She introduced me to a community of 50 chimpanzees where, in order to understand the way that the society worked, one had to pay attention to each individual personality, each individual family, and each individual’s strategies for negotiating their complex social world...

Author: By SOFIE C. BROOKS, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Richard W. Wrangham | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...Having had sufficient time to study the report, to begin implementing some of the recommendations and to understand and begin charting next steps, I wanted to respond to requests from students and faculty that the draft report be released publicly,” Hammonds wrote in an e-mailed statement...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Dean Releases Ad Board Report | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

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