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...consultancy in Tokyo: "The Toshibas and Hitachis of this world are in about 20 or 30 different industry areas. There is no focus." Even in secondary business lines, Sharp tries to develop what it calls "one-of-a-kind" products. A recent example: the new Healsio oven that reduces fat and salt content by cooking with superheated steam. The oven is a smash in Japan, even though it's small and retails for more than...
Other kinds of American lawsuits provide even greater cause for alarm. In 2002, the families of several obese teenagers sued McDonald’s, claiming that the fast-food giant was responsible for making their children fat. The plaintiffs asserted that McDonald’s had deliberately misled them by withholding information about the nutritional content of its food. The mother of one of the teenagers, who, at 15, weighed in at over 400 pounds, claimed that she had “always believed McDonald’s was healthy...
Take it from someone who grew up overweight—being fat is no fun. But it’s also not the fault of fast-food companies, whose greasy, salty, sugary offerings Americans have consumed in excess for decades. By suing and attempting to extract punitive awards from these companies, obese Americans shift ownership for a very serious health problem to restaurants and away from themselves. Not only is this transfer of blame mildly delusional (induced, perhaps, by over-medication), it also damages efforts at addressing America’s obesity epidemic, which only stands a chance of being...
...White House for an alternative-energy push, although it doesn't quite match Gaffney's best-case euphoria. Karl Rove has educated himself on issues as arcane as the vagaries of ethanol transport, and there is a drizzle of funds for research into alternative fuels in Bush's big fat energy bill. But the President and Dick Cheney, who has been in charge of energy policy, remain oilmen at heart, skeptical about a major Manhattan Project-style national campaign to redirect the energy market, mindful of the time and expense necessary to build a new infrastructure and the pipelines, refineries...
When the stress of classes and Harvard life is getting you down, there’s nothing like dropping a fat deuce. But when nature calls, you can’t just take off your pantaloons or unbutton your union suit anywhere (unless you have explosive diarrhea, in which case you have carte blanche to deuce on the floor). You want a place where you can take some time to relax and really enjoy the moment...