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Fast food chains are notoriously cagey about telling consumers how their food gets from the field to the feedlot to the drive-thru window. Hope Jahren, a researcher at the University of Hawaii, believes consumers have a right to know how their food is made. She is the co-author of a new study that sampled almost 500 fast food items from McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King and proved what many Americans may already suspect: On a chemical level, the vast majority of fast food meat derives from a single source: corn. She did this by following...
...highest ranking country in the world is at about 0.82, which means that even the highest ranking country has quite some way to go,” co-author Saadia Zahidi of the World Economic Forum said in an interview with The Guardian...
...still in its incipient phase, and that job losses could surpass 2 million in 2009, with unemployment climbing to 8%. "As the economy slides into a deeper recession, it appears we are closer to the beginning of the labor market downturn than the end," wrote the study's co-author, economist Ed McKelvey. "We anticipate a sharper decline in employment in coming months." Reich also quotes 8% as a likely unemployment figure, though he notes that figure excludes job seekers who have given up searching altogether and part-time workers seeking full-time employment. With those segments of the population...
...doubts about whether or not a Bradley effect exists. “I’m not entirely convinced that such a discrepancy [between pre-election polls and election results] would necessarily be the result of individuals who are afraid of appearing racist,” Apfelbaum said. A co-author of the paper, Harvard Business School professor Michael I. Norton, said there is little empirical evidence for the Bradley effect, since it is based on a very small sample size of black politicians who have run for public office. “Any time you’re making...
Koulmanda said she and her co-author, Terry B. Strom, a Medical School professor, hope to begin clinical trials by the end of the year...