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...overweight kids. Policymakers are fighting it as they study the growing body of research showing how everything from income to race to education plays a role in how much kids weigh and as they craft local solutions to solve these local problems. Doctors are fighting it as they deal daily with the ills associated with childhood obesity and work to repair the damage that's been done. And perhaps most important, teachers, mentors and public role models are fighting it as they help kids navigate a culture that fosters fat but idealizes thin and as they teach them that what...
...unveiled a tomato-safety initiative in 2007 that sought to identify causes of salmonella infection, but Acheson admits that studying preventive techniques doesn't help the FDA deal with outbreaks. The FDA has no plans to change the initiative in the face of the recent outbreak...
...they are destroyed when they are still there and are still very active?" he says. "In fact, they have been conducting fresh recruitment." Jikiri is a senior official of the Moro National Liberation Front, a former separatist group that gave up armed struggle in the late 1990s. Its peace deal with the government secured autonomy for some Muslim areas, which the group now governs. Jikiri is skeptical about the Manila-led effort to win local people's trust. "Life in Sulu is still 40 years behind the times," he says. But the military is doing some good, he adds...
...know when to propose or close a deal...
...Moreover, factory owners are frequently required to pay for their own audits - a fact that Auret Van Heerden of the Washington-based Fair Labor Association calls "something of a dirty little secret." One manufacturer with 15 factories in seven countries told Van Heerden that he had to deal with more than 250 audits a year, each costing an average of $1,600. Small wonder many factory managers see multinationals' codes of conduct as a plot to blunt their competitive edge. In a pre-audit pep talk to workers one Chinese factory manager railed: "Social responsibility is in essence trade barriers...