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Environmental Groups Cutting Catalog Stacks
By MARIA ASPAN, The New York Times, November 19, 2007
Consumers who curse the growing stacks of holiday catalogs in their mailboxes have a new alternative: a coalition of environmental groups has introduced a free Web site, CatalogChoice.org, that allows people to remove themselves from more than 1,000 mailing lists.
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U.N. to Say It Overstated H.I.V. Cases by Millions
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., The New York Times, November 20, 2007
The United Nations’ AIDS-fighting agency plans to issue a report today acknowledging that it overestimated the size of the epidemic and that new infections with the deadly virus have been dropping each year since they peaked in the late 1990s.
The agency, Unaids, will lower the number of people it believes are infected worldwide, to 33.2 million from the 39.5 million it estimated late last year.
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Really? The Claim: White Meat Is Healthier Than Dark Meat
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR, The New York Times, November 20, 2007
THE FACTS
As Americans carve up their Thanksgiving turkeys this year, an age-old question will come into play: dark meat or white?
Health authorities have long advocated choosing white meat, saying it contains less fat and fewer calories. But the nutritional differences between the two are not so great.
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Observatory: Katrina’s Damage to Trees May Alter Carbon Balance
By HENRY FOUNTAIN, The New York Times, November 20, 2007
The world knows the kind of destruction that Hurricane Katrina brought to New Orleans and other cities and towns on the Gulf Coast.
But destruction of a different sort is the subject of a study in the journal Science by Jeffrey Q. Chambers of Tulane University and colleagues. They report that the storm uprooted or severely damaged roughly 320 million trees, making an impact on the carbon balance in the region.
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By MARIA ASPAN, The New York Times, November 19, 2007
Consumers who curse the growing stacks of holiday catalogs in their mailboxes have a new alternative: a coalition of environmental groups has introduced a free Web site, CatalogChoice.org, that allows people to remove themselves from more than 1,000 mailing lists.
( Read More )
U.N. to Say It Overstated H.I.V. Cases by Millions
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., The New York Times, November 20, 2007
The United Nations’ AIDS-fighting agency plans to issue a report today acknowledging that it overestimated the size of the epidemic and that new infections with the deadly virus have been dropping each year since they peaked in the late 1990s.
The agency, Unaids, will lower the number of people it believes are infected worldwide, to 33.2 million from the 39.5 million it estimated late last year.
( Read More )
Really? The Claim: White Meat Is Healthier Than Dark Meat
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR, The New York Times, November 20, 2007
THE FACTS
As Americans carve up their Thanksgiving turkeys this year, an age-old question will come into play: dark meat or white?
Health authorities have long advocated choosing white meat, saying it contains less fat and fewer calories. But the nutritional differences between the two are not so great.
( Read More )
Observatory: Katrina’s Damage to Trees May Alter Carbon Balance
By HENRY FOUNTAIN, The New York Times, November 20, 2007
The world knows the kind of destruction that Hurricane Katrina brought to New Orleans and other cities and towns on the Gulf Coast.
But destruction of a different sort is the subject of a study in the journal Science by Jeffrey Q. Chambers of Tulane University and colleagues. They report that the storm uprooted or severely damaged roughly 320 million trees, making an impact on the carbon balance in the region.
( Read More )
