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...meat and fruit. Another big problem: improper holding temperatures (22% of restaurants kept food either not hot enough or not cold enough), which can potentially lead to bacteria festering in poorly cooked food. Inadequate hand-washing accounted for 16% of the violations recorded, putting diners at risk for contagion of norovirus or salmonella. Infestations of rodents and insects were cited in 13% of restaurants, most often in New York City, Boston and Philadelphia, while 11% of restaurants were cited for workers using dirty cloths to wipe down tables or food-preparation surfaces...
...Starbucks coffee, an expensive butter doesn't seem that extravagant." If this was the way food vendors and consumers were thinking, it was clearly up to me to collect a bunch of these expensive items to bring them down, to try to stem the contagion of snottification...
...share in the excitement of a fellow bench mate, who inadvertently registered amazement as the male soloist began singing in a surprisingly bass voice. Although the songs were in a foreign language, the emotion in the soloists’ voices enveloped the audience in the universality of music.A similar contagion spread during the performance of the Kuumba Singers, a large-scale choir that explores the musical tradition of African folk songs, spirituals, and gospel. Their performance featured three distinct vocal groups, whose juxtaposed parts harmonized perfectly.Throughout the evening, Hancock shared a diverse array of personal anecdotes about everything from...
...Harvard University Library (HUL) is continuing its efforts to make University collections more digitally accessible, recently launching a new online library collection entitled, “Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics.” The compilation is the newest addition to the Library’s Open Collections Program, an initiative begun in 2002 to digitize the University’s books, photographs, and other historical artifacts and make them accessible to individuals around the world, including people not affiliated with Harvard. The program—led by HUL Associate Director Barbara S. Graham and archivist Megan Sniffin...
...Though the risk of continued or spreading violence remained, sociologists and security experts said they believed the significant dip in violence Tuesday night considerably lowered the risk of contagion - at least till the next time. French government officials aren't taking any chances on a possible resurgence in Villiers-le-Bel. French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie, for example, saluted the "calmed situation," but promised that considerably reinforced "police presence will be maintained for as long as necessary." Sarkozy also convened an urgent meeting of key cabinet members to discuss ways to prevent a renewal of attacks...