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Weekend Update

October 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

While mankind continues to ravage the world’s oceans for its fish, evidence mounts that raising livestock for food isn’t particularly sustainable either. Researchers at Cornell University released findings that if the people of the State of New York adopted a vegetarian diet, the state would be able to directly provide 50 percent of its own […]

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Weekend Update

October 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Years ago, in what must have been another lifetime, I wrote in The Washington Post that the famous blue crabs of the Chesapeake Bay were heading for trouble. For such effrontery, I was very nearly subjected to a lynch mob of angry watermen. Flash forward from the late 1980s and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

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Weekend Update

September 30th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

Children were in the news this week. George Bush, while draining the treasury to fund his ghastly war-without-end, announced he would refuse to expand health insurance for the nation’s kids. Atta boy, George. Show ’em you know how to save where it counts. Meanwhile, a new study published recently in the British medical journal The […]

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