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...Carlson, a Cantabrigian who has opposed the University's plans to build an art museum on the riverside site of Mahoney's Garden Center, said that he found the University to be untrustworthy in its negotiations with the community...
...Carlson Cos. of Minneapolis, Minn., a hotel and restaurant conglomerate, offers a cutting-edge example of the new urge to help employees do good while they do well. This month Carlson is rolling out a special online database that employees can use to find volunteer openings in fields as diverse as teaching reading to adults, building homes for low-income residents or rehabilitating sick birds. The database will also notify individual employees of specific opportunities in their areas of interest. Corporate executives say the program could help reduce turnover 5% to 10% for the company, which employs 50,000 people...
...Indeed, Carlson has made refuting pseudoscience something of a hobby. He has been involved in a number of research projects that aim to debunk astrologists' claims, including one that was published in the journal Nature...
...Carlson says that even after talking with the man, he could not determine whether he was serious...
Despite the occasional crazy person in the amateur bunch, Carlson suggests that it is the arrogance of some academics that causes them to be skeptical of amateurs...