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To stay alive and grow in such conditions, farm animals need pharmaceutical help, which can have further damaging consequences for humans. Overuse of antibiotics on farm animals leads, inevitably, to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the same bugs that infect animals can infect us too. The UCS estimates that about 70...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

It's the world's longest poem - over 1.8 million words, containing over one hundred thousand verses and approximately ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined. And now India's celebrated epic the Mahabharata, the writing of which began around 300 B. C. by the venerated Hindu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweeting the World's Longest Poem | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

Section reading is a borderline case. You might participate better if you’ve done it, but you could spend a bunch of time on this and then find that it never comes up. The latter scenario is slightly more common. That said, it’s generally not...

Author: By The crimson superboard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How To Game Your Classes | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

A year from now, as you Facebook-stalk acquaintances from high school to see how they’ve fared away from Mommy and Daddy, your first response is likely going to be “Ew.” Why? Unfortunately for you, and for many an incoming college...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Keep Off the Freshman Fifteen | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

It wasn't easy. My dad is very proud and independent. He didn't really want to talk about what came next. He was pretty sure, but not certain, that he'd signed a living will. He was very reluctant to sign an enduring power of attorney to empower me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP Has Become a Party of Nihilists | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

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