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Beantown transplants may question why such a trivial issue would garner front-page coverage in a major newspaper, but true Bostonians would never doubt the relevance of the Herald’s lurid press account. The Tom Brady ball cap controversy only underscores the importance of the Red Sox in local culture—a team beloved by New Englanders for the egalitarian, working class values it embodies...
...scent business isn't all wine and tuberoses. Technological advances, consolidation and the race to get into new markets are shaking up the industry. IFF is Pepsi to Givaudan's Coke, and the two firms account for about 30% of the $18 billion global market for flavors and fragrances. Givaudan lurched ahead this spring by buying Quest, which had been the market's fifth leading player. IFF is coming out of a rough spell, with three different CEOs since 1999. "There has been a lot of turmoil at the top," says John Leffingwell, president of Leffingwell & Associates, an industry consulting...
...calls “data ecology.” Mayer-Schoenberger—no stranger to technology, having founded a data security company called Ikarus Software in 1986—focused on Google. Google keeps records of every search inquiry made using its search engine with a Google account, including the IP address, according to its Web site. “The problem, as is usual for anyone who has read Orwell’s ‘1984,’” Mayer-Schoenberger said, “is that once anyone has installed a surveillance, someone...
...course heads, Summers is a martyr of taboo within the ivory tower. They publicly defended Summers after he suggested, at an economics conference nearly 28 months ago, that “intrinsic aptitude” could partially account for the dearth of female scientists at elite universities. When the remarks became public, he faced a wave of condemnation at Harvard and across the country...
...moral progress—a sublimation of our intrinsic greed, cruelty, and penchant for violence into more a humane social ethos. Once again, as much as it may please us to romanticize the Rousseauian savage and see civilization as the source of all moral and spiritual malaise, an honest account of our ethical development cannot bear out our prelapsarian fantasies...