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...calories from fat (compared with 30% to 35% in the average American's diet). For someone who eats 1,500 calories a day, that translates to 42 grams of fat. (Chomp down on a Big Mac and medium fries and you're already 14 grams over the limit...
...House approved oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month largely on the promise of an important number. To win moderates in their party, Republicans added an amendment limiting drilling to just 2,000 of the park's 1.5 million acres. But it turns out those 2,000 acres don't have to be contiguous, and only the area of the equipment touching the ground is counted. Since each drilling platform takes up as little as 10 acres, the limit would allow oil companies to spread out over practically the entire park. Another key number...
...week after President Bush’s controversial decision to limit federal funding for embryonic stem cell research went against Harvard’s wishes, scientists and government relations specialists are trying to make the best of the situation...
...block stem-cell research because it kills an embryo that has the potential of becoming a human is to limit the potential to save lives and cure many devastating illnesses [NATION, July 23]. HECTOR TIMOURIAN Livermore, Calif...
...equipment touching the ground is counted. Each drilling platform can take up as little as 10 acres. The pipelines are above ground. For space purposes, the amendment counts only the ground touched by the stanchions holding up the pipe. Road widths also are conveniently left out of the space limit. "It's a complete sham," complains Allen Mattison, a spokesman for the Sierra Club which opposes drilling. "It's like a fishing net. If you count just the space of the string's width, that's small. But if you open up a fishing net and count the area...