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...today, the Food and Drug Administration sets the guidelines for the serving sizes as listed on nutrition labels—but it falls to restaurants and food companies to decide how small or large a portion to actually serve. Given this freedom, many food suppliers rely on “value marketing,” or try to convince a customer to buy more food for a slight increase in cost. For restaurants, the cost of offering more food is small, because the cost of ingredients themselves is little compared to the cost of labor. Through value marketing, not only...
...Tenure also implies that professors are given much more professional freedom, because they can only be fired in extreme circumstances. “There’s always a concern that tenure in some cases shields faculty from performance accountability, and in the worst case enables faculty to perform at unacceptable levels with little or no consequences,” says Chait, noting that one can think of any number of cases where tenured professors have said controversial things they might not have otherwise...
What Would Jesus Censor? It is hard to believe that the TV academy yielded to the Catholic League and censored Kathy Griffin's Emmy Awards speech because she said she didn't thank Jesus Christ [Sept.24]. It is a very painful reminder that we are losing our democratic freedom of religion, speech and the press and are moving toward a dictatorship in which organized religion controls what we hear and see. Next, the Catholic League will censor the media from reporting sex crimes by priests and the resulting multimillion-dollar lawsuits. Alton Hardman, ALTUS, OKLA...
...Iraq.In a speech at the Institute of Politics, Zebari, a Kurd, drew attention to the optimism of the Iraqi people and the successes of the Iraqi government, while acknowledging that the country still faces many hurdles.“The U.S. is our ally in our pursuit of freedom and human dignity,” he said. “I salute the soldiers standing side-by-side with us against a dark, totalitarian ideology.” Zebari emphasized that, in principle, he did not want foreign troops on Iraqi soil. But he said that...
...country's martial links began long before these two generals rose to power. Formerly a ragtag band of freedom fighters, the military helped Burma free itself from British colonialism. Aung San, the father of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, is revered both as an independence hero and as the founder of Burma's army. After independence in 1948, this group of rather beleaguered soldiers transformed itself into a professional force. A Defense Services Academy modeled after West Point opened its doors. The Defense Services Institute took over colonial-era business concerns like shipping...