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...precautionary principle, which holds that unless you can scientifically prove that something is absolutely safe you should be cautious about introducing it. In the U.S., the onus is on proving that something causes harm rather than proving that it's absolutely safe. So it comes down to a clash between the can-do American ethos and the more skeptical or cautious European one." Adds TIME science editor Phillip Elmer-DeWitt, "In the U.S., the FDA has sufficient scientific prestige that the public will generally trust its assessment of any dangers involved in consuming particular foods, but in Europe there...
...York senate race this year was going to be the Clash of the Titans--Hillary vs. Rudy, no last names needed. So when one of the titans quit the contest last Friday, all the gas went out of the race, right...
Samuel P. Huntington is a professor at Harvard and author of The Clash of Civilizations and The Remaking of World Order
Underneath the arrogance and naivete in the e-conomy, there's long been a bias against seasoned managers from traditional industries, a belief that experienced folks would clash with the culture and drag the operation down. "Dotcom people describe old-media people as if they were from another century," observes Paul Bernard, head of a New York City-based training and coaching firm, Paul Bernard & Associates...
...fall of Details was more than a clash between tony Conde Nast culture and the ruffian lad-mag sensibility. It was a clash between rival ideas of manhood. Men's mags have slavered over women before--remember Vargas girls?--but with an affect of gentlemen's-club exclusivity. Young men turned to them as tutors in the mysteries of manhood. Today youths prefer populist outlets like Maxim and TV's The Man Show, which toast an uncomplicated guy-hood. Details, finally, didn't party hard enough...