Word: consumerized
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Take Britain. Just as it did in Ireland and Spain, consumer confidence in the U.K. swelled in recent years on the back of rising housing prices. But in all three countries, red-hot housing markets have suddenly gone cold. With jittery banks slashing the range of available mortgages, and rocketing...
Klein thinks restaurants still have a long way to go. She says they aren't motivated to set a very high safety bar, noting that a restaurant may commit violations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would classify as most critical - improper holding temperatures, poor employee hygiene, food...
At the moment, says Klein, this kind of health-inspection information isn't very easily accessible in all locales. In many cities, such as New York City, Chicago and Denver, restaurant-inspection reports are available online. In others, like San Francisco and Atlanta, restaurants keep their reports on-site and...
For the most part, though, designers display a staunch regional aesthetic. "The prevalence of capitalist consumer culture from the West has meant that there's a move toward a regional identity," says Daniel Vukovich, a lecturer in postcolonial theory at the University of Hong Kong.
Worries about aluminum emerged in the late 1980s, when researchers found in an animal study that the metal's compounds could be inhaled and potentially reach the brain. But additional studies failed to prove that the agents could breach the blood-brain barrier, and so far there is no evidence...