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...humans. Biologically, cattle are ruminants, exquisitely evolved to graze grass, and researchers have found that a grain diet raises the acidity in steers' guts. This breeds an acid-resistant form of E. coli that can spread from feces-contaminated carcasses to meat. Although USDA inspections are supposed to detect E. coli, the system is not perfect. In 1993, 600 people in Seattle got sick and three children died after eating E. coli-- tainted hamburger. Since then, outbreaks have triggered more recalls and led to a federal recommendation that consumers cook beef thoroughly. According to USDA research, more than half...
...Hair of the Dog Alcohol-related illnesses can be difficult to treat and even harder to detect...
...less intelligent than whites. In 2001, government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 speculated that the presence of black students was the cause of grade inflation at Harvard, and in 2002 law professor Alan M. Dershowitz conditionally endorsed torture by the Israeli and U.S. governments. Those who detect laziness and complacency in the Harvard Faculty willfully ignore the rigor of the University’s hiring process. Harvard assembles a staggering array of data and specialists’ opinions before conferring tenure, making it the most sought-after and demanding appointment in the academic world. It is therefore...
...frequency of things that don’t look like they’re happening,” Verba says. While technological advances have facilitated plagiarism through the arrival of the internet, he contends, it has also become easier to catch plagiarism with the use of search engines to detect copied works. —Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno can be reached at guehenno@fas.harvard.edu...
...treatment plants don't always operate within specifications. That's why we would say that an added barrier of putting it back through an environmental buffer is required," he says. "We need to be reasonably prudent and cautious-maybe there are some things in the water we can't detect...