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...Other than the growing profit margins for the food industry, the only good thing about fast-food companies' pushing meat, fat and sugar on the developing world is the financial boon it will create for another ethically challenged U.S. industry. As those chicken nuggets start clogging arteries and aiding the global obesity epidemic, millions of people will develop diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. What an untapped market for the pharmaceutical sector! Simon Chaitowitz, Washington...
...merger goes through, Microsoft will have the size to compete with Google in the online-advertising game, a fast-growing sector with a ton of potential. Size means greater efficiency and more inventory to offer advertisers. "The No. 1 thing we're trying to do is increase scale and increase capacity to give ourselves a better chance to be more successful more quickly," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts on Monday. "It's not primarily about scaling down. It's about scaling...
...simply not compelling. Indeed, none of the album’s tracks reveal any of his fabled lyrical skill. The album does have a couple half-decent songs, but they’re not without significant flaws. Opener “Love Revolution” is fast-paced and catchy, but the echo effects used on the vocals seem out of place for a garage rock song. The album’s most exciting track, a Stones-y rocker titled “Back In Vietnam,” is either an overused analogy for the war in Iraq...
...compared to the United States’ 31%. (Boston, for a more apropos comparison, is just shy of 14%.) But the U.S. is a different place. In Barcelona, a walking city par excellence, markets with fresh produce abound; tiny, flavor-loaded tapas replace our leaden meat-filled entrees; and fast food, despite the occasional McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, struggles to gain a foothold. But it wasn’t principally the lack of nutritional fact bombardment that made the seafood paella so memorable, or the sea salt and saffron so vibrant...
...idea behind the new, fast-forward primary calendar that Democrats unveiled this election season was to give a big, hyperdemocratic finale to the process of picking a nominee. Nearly two dozen states, tired of standing on the sidelines as future Presidents lavished attention on places like Ottumwa, Iowa, and Nashua, N.H., had muscled their way to an early spot on the calendar. Proportional delegate allotment - instead of winner-take-all results - would ensure that every vote mattered. Super Tuesday would be the closest thing we have ever seen to a national primary: a single day on which the candidates...