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...pigs, on the other hand, can't be killed fast enough--though 2 million a week are being butchered. And therein lies the problem. Hog farming, until recently the most profitable sector in agriculture, is stuck in the mud. A glut of live pigs on the market, exacerbated by a sudden drop in slaughterhouse capacity, has pushed the price of pigs down to levels not seen since the Depression. "It's a lethal mixture," says Al Tank, CEO of the National Pork Producers Council. Across the South and Midwest, farmers are losing thousands of dollars a day, drifting deeper into...
...Their maps are more like satellite photographs that take in the entire route but concentrate only on the highlights. "The thing people are highly interested in," says Randal Scott, president and chief scientific officer at Incyte Pharmaceuticals, based in Palo Alto, Calif., one of the players in the private-sector gene-mapping game, "is where all the cities are. You don't need to document all the trees and gullies and ditches." Once those landmarks are identified, scientists assume, they can focus on them in greater detail...
After a brief stint working as a lawyer in the private sector upon graduating from law school, Harshbarger became a public defender and went on to serve various roles in the Attorney General's office. In 1982 he was elected District Attorney of Middlesex County. He was elected Attorney General of Massachusetts...
Dominguez says there are many other perks that drew him to affiliated housing. HPRE does not require a first and last month's rent or a security deposit, like private sector landlords. Rents can also be term-billed...
...Blame Harvard for Cold Hearts," (Nov. 24) Alexander Nguyen touched upon a common anxiety among graduating seniors: the lack of viable career options presented by the University. Too often, the employment world is portrayed as a choice between which corporation one wants to work for. The public interest sector is simply not given the same attention. When I was a senior, I wanted to take the ideals, convictions and "search for truth" I had learned in the classroom to the working world, rather than leaving them behind...