By Andrew C. Revkin : INSERT DESCRIPTION
The world has seen the first international conference on manufacturing meat. This is the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, of growing pork, chicken, or beef through cell culture in vats instead of raising and slaughtering animals.
My colleague Mark Bittman wrote a fine piece recently about the […]
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By EDWARD WYATT
LOS ANGELES — Each week on “American Idol,” Ryan Seacrest cautions viewers to be careful when they call the numbers that allow them to vote for their favorite contestants.
And each week thousands of “American Idol” fans misdial.
Recently the calls have been pouring in to the phone bank of Internet Sales & Customer Services […]
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By GUY TREBAY
“THESE Marys are always asking me where did you get this and that,” Glenn Marla said last Sunday morning, referring to certain male friends. “And I’m like, Mary, where do you think? It’s Lane Bryant, 1970s. What other options are there for someone like me?”
It is safe to assume Lane Bryant never offered […]
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By LESLIE WAYNE
When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton needed help rounding up superdelegates, she turned to Harold M. Ickes, the ultimate Democratic fixer, who is now working round-the-clock for her, drawing on his vast energy and decades of political connections.
But, at the same time, Mr. Ickes is also wearing another hat. He is president of Catalist, […]
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your money : By HILLARY CHURA
REAL estates prices have fallen almost everywhere. Interest rates have declined. It would seem a good time — at least for those who resisted the temptations of easy credit in the last few years — to buy a vacation home.
But lenders have toughened the rules on mortgages, making second-home purchases […]
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By SHAILA DEWAN
OFF THE GEORGIA COAST — On a day so clear the ocean, from certain angles, is nothing but a field of glare, a team of spotters in a Twin Otter airplane flies a precise grid pattern, looking for North Atlantic right whales in the warm, shallow waters they use as their winter calving […]
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