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Amen to Michael Pollan on the affordability of good food, in "10 Questions" [Feb. 1]. When my husband and I went low fat, high fiber and organic, our food bill doubled. By shopping at local farmers' markets we reduced the cost somewhat, but if we had children to feed, we could not afford...
Lesson No. 1: tell people what you want them to do in a way that will make intuitive sense to them. The U.S. government's Food Guide Pyramid says adults should eat 5 to 7 tsp. of oil a day. Know how many teaspoonfuls of oil you ate yesterday or why you should care...
Cardinal's somewhat haphazard acquisition strategy proved difficult to manage, though. Cardinal started as a small Ohio food distributor in 1971, and eight years later, founding CEO Robert Walter moved the company into pharmaceuticals. Over the next two decades, he transformed the firm into a $75 billion conglomerate. "It was a very entrepreneurial company, founded out of the back of this Harvard Business School guy Bob Walter's car," says Lisa Gill, a JPMorgan analyst who has covered Cardinal since 1999. "People talked about Cardinal wanting to be the GE of health care...
Itching for a good after-school science experiment? Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey have created a homemade bedbug trap using a plastic cat-food dish, an insulated jug and some dry-ice pellets. According to Wan-Tien Tsai, who reported her findings in December at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, the dry-ice-and-thermos combo captured the bloodsucking critters in an infested apartment just as effectively as, if not more so than, equipment used by professional exterminators. (See the fascinating, frightening world of insects...
...pellets slowly evaporate, the open thermos spout lets the CO2 - which falsely signals bedbugs that a breathing, blood-filled meal is nearby - seep out overnight. That's usually enough time to entice the nocturnal insects into the other key component of the trap: the overturned food-and-water dish on which the thermos sits. The bugs climb the outer surface of the dish, which can be scuffed with sandpaper for better traction, and get stuck in its moat, made slippery-smooth with a dusting of talcum powder...