A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

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The first study to measure the full economic value of bottom trawling in Europe's waters calculates that the destructive ...

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