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...Guide to Oyster Eating in North America. "If we can get oysters [back] to historic levels they can make a huge difference," he says, but his dream of a return to oyster's golden age - in the late 19th century when 100 million lbs. (more than 45,000 metric tons) of oysters were harvested from the Chesapeake every year, versus today's 250,000 lbs. (113 metric ton) haul - is a long ways...
...what? This is the 119th flight of a space shuttle, the 20th for Endeavour and the 22nd overall to the ISS, a still-growing orbiting outpost that is more or less the only reason any of the shuttles fly anymore. The Endeavour crew will be delivering a two-ton truss segment that will help hold solar arrays and will require three risky spacewalks to install. If the ISS were doing good science at an arguably reasonable price, those risks would be worth taking. But it's doing almost no science at all at an exorbitant price - an estimated $100 billion...
...RECYCLING $770 Amount a Chengdu panda-breeding center used to spend every month to clean up nearly a ton of daily panda droppings 300°C Temperature at which the dung is sterilized under a new plan to use it for profit. It's then made into odor-free souvenirs like an Olympic-themed panda statue
...Amount a Chengdu panda-breeding center used to spend every month to clean up nearly a ton of panda droppings...
...huge amount of damage." Beyond that, says Miller, "concrete is a very forgiving material, and so it can stand up to a lot of cracking and wear. Steel on the other hand, cannot." In a place like Minnesota, where road crews dump corrosive ice melter on roadways by the ton in winter, the problem is even worse...