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...stores, 1.8 million employees and $345 billion in sales changes its ways, it's hard not to notice. Wal-Mart has made itself the darling of greens with its pledge to install solar panels on many of its stores, switch to hybrid vehicles, conserve water and even buy wild-caught salmon. More important, its mandates are having an incalculable ripple effect through its 60,000 suppliers, which are being asked to join Wal-Mart's effort to reduce packaging, waste and energy use. And when Wal-Mart asks, there's little question what the answer will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Now For Our Feverish Planet? | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

DENVER—A spring break trip west got wild in a hurry for the Harvard women’s lacrosse team on Tuesday afternoon, as the Crimson was undone by the unfamiliar Mile High air and the No. 15 Denver women in a 20-7 loss to the Pioneers in front of 144 fans at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Lacrosse Suffers Mile-High Defeat | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

...following morning, Bishaq ran down a beautiful black and white speckled wild guinea fowl. He slung it in the back and later, when we reached Abeche, he disappeared for three hours to roast the bird with some cousins, leaving me to amble the streets looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road with the Driver from Hell | 3/27/2007 | See Source »

...been largely positive: vastly increased food supplies. But the effects of modified insects are largely unknown. Would insect predators be affected? Would the mosquitoes better transmit other illnesses? More research is needed, but some effects might not be known unless the mosquitoes are actually allowed to breed in the wild...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel | Title: Shooting The Magic Bullet | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...technology isn’t nearly ready to take flight. The mosquito species that Jacobs-Lorena used is not the most harmful of mosquito species and the parasite used does not infect humans. Furthermore, the modified mosquitoes only have an evolutionary advantage over infected mosquitoes, and in the wild only a small fraction of mosquitoes are infected with malaria...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel | Title: Shooting The Magic Bullet | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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