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...secret that the earth's oceans are being dangerously overfished. Ninety percent of large predatory fish have vanished, and 30% of all fish stocks have collapsed. Chantecaille, a cosmetics company known for its refined formulations using natural ingredients, has introduced the Protected Paradise compacts for face (left, $90) and eyes to not only educate consumers but also help reverse the impact of overfishing. The compacts' beautiful depictions of the underwater ecosystem illustrate the many layers that are threatened. Five percent of the proceeds from their sale go to the Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation, which funds important research...
...pages of official documents seized from Saddam’s regime, and spent the next decade combing through them. The Iraq Research and Documentation Project was painstaking scholarly work, carried out in hopes of finding more proof of Saddam’s crimes, Makiya said. He estimated that 90 percent of the documents were irrelevant, but he kept working through the pages for the few that mattered...
...benefits was 1993. The federal government spends $4.3 billion a year in disability compensation for veterans of the first Gulf War, even though that conflict lasted only a month. Given the intensity of combat and the high injury rates in Iraq and Afghanistan, we expect close to 50 percent of current troops to qualify for long-term disability compensation...
...over the next five minutes to pull Harvard within four at 60-56 with 1:04 left. Junior guard Emily Tay sparked the run with eight points, including a pair of three-pointers, and Hallion added a pair of jumpers. Dartmouth, which shot a blistering 68 percent from the field in the first half, mustered an abysmal 5-for-28 clip in the second half after the Crimson switched its zone defense to an aggressive man-to-man. But in the last minute, the Big Green calmly sank eight consecutive free throws to ice the game. Koren Schram led Dartmouth...
...testified before a Senate committee in favor of boosting the Institutes’ budget. NIH’s funding has seen a real-dollars decline in the last three years, leading many scientists to criticize Congress and the White House for stifling biomedical research. “The 13-percent loss in real dollars over the last five years is having a cascading impact that is slowing progress and threatening future research that could lead to cures and even ways to prevent disease,” Faust said in her Senate testimony on Tuesday morning. The additional funding represents...