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...into commercial shrimp farms yields financial returns of about $1,220 per hectare per year. However, this does not consider the rehabilitation costs of $9,318 per hectare necessary when the area has been "shrimped out" after five or ten years. Other economic benefits the mangroves provide include: collected wood and other forest products; cultivation for off-shore fisheries; and coastal protection against storms, a total of $12,392 per hectare over the course of nine years. If the developer were accountable for the mangrove depletion, would you still want to invest in that shrimp farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We Put A Dollar Value On Nature? | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...study was funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...

Author: By Julia R Jeffries, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Childhood Obesity Prevention Should Start Early | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...grass-fed beef with no more juiciness than a withered cadaver. No, that young man or woman - and they may be out there now, building a "Hallelujah" chorus on Yelp - will find a way to do for the hamburger what the Koreans have done for fried chicken, what the wood-oven movement has done for pizza, what Chipotle did for the burrito. And when that happens, the nation will have a new hero - and the Rachael Ray Burger Bash will have a new victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Anyone Improve Upon the Classic Burger? | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...when I went to lay the basic vocal tracks, I discovered that I had no voice. All of the singing in the dusty woods of Big Sur with the wood smoke and the cabin we were staying in, drinking too much whiskey in the kitchen and doing all of these horrible things for my voice had really hurt it. I had to not talk for two months. That obviously put a huge freeze on making the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joanna Newsom | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

Stepping into Adams House's FDR Suite brings an immediate blast of warm air and the soft glow of a wood-burning fireplace. Augmenting the light of the fireplace, genuine Edison bulbs emit amber light from a turn-of-the-century chandelier. Despite the constant gray of Cambridge in February, the light streaming through the large French windows in Adams B-17 is crystal clear...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mr. Roosevelt Returns to Harvard | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

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