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...American diet in colonial times. When milk leaves the animal, however, it can also contain any number of pathogens, which is why most doctors consider pasteurization - subjecting milk to a short burst of heat followed by rapid cooling - one of the great public-health success stories of the 20th century. By eliminating most of the pathogens that cause disease, including E. coli, salmonella and listeria, they say, pasteurization has helped lower infectious-disease rates in the U.S. more than 90% over the past century...
...online, it depended solely on a few screenings of each episode around campus for exposure, audience, and success.“Before we went online,” says Koenigs, “it wasn’t really television at all. We were really missing the curve for 20th century programming. But the Internet is a transformative thing, and so with it we’re really trying to step up and catch up to the other colleges that we’re currently so far behind.”According to Koenigs, HRTV is finally gaining momentum...
...social history of public opinion polls tells a different story.The acceptance of the idea that an individual needs quantitative data in order to understand his or her own community—and sometimes even him- or herself—represented a cultural shift in how Americans in the 20th century understood their society, argues University of Pennsylvania historian Sarah E. Igo in “The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public.”Though the book isn’t beach reading, its look at the development of a mass society that came...
...offensive advances. The Crimson had its best chance to tie the score in the last minute of the game. The puck got loose in front of the Saints net and a scramble ensued. But Guckian was able to get a hold of the puck, making her 20th save of the game and 10th of the period...
...certain point, as I sat in a grand room at the New York Public Library and heard Titanic director James Cameron explain why the bone box in front of him might have held Jesus' remains, I began thinking fondly of Rev. Raymond Brown, one of the 20th century's great historical-Jesus experts. Reading him was no joyride. His footnotes seemed to have footnotes. But that was the point. His scholarship was such that even when one of his books called the virgin birth "unresolved," it got a go-ahead from his Roman Catholic Church...