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...million are slaughtered every hour. Over their 45-day average lifetime, the chickens are overcrowded inside filthy sheds on factory farms where they live amidst their own waste. But the most serious welfare problem for these birds is their selective breeding, which causes them to grow so quickly that they suffer from painful heart and lung ailments and crippling leg disorders. Thirty years ago, researchers reported in the Veternary Report, “We consider that birds might have been bred to grow so fast that they are on the verge of structural collapse.” Thirty years...
...know about The War at all. With survival comes an extreme over-protectiveness of one’s children, and by extension, one’s grandchildren. My grandparents don’t want me taking risks, but my father doesn’t want me to grow up fearful of the world...
...banner late last year, and now sell all of their kids' stuff through www.nippazwithattitude.com. CDs cost $20, while T shirts (available in sizes up to 5 years) and body vests (in sizes up to 1 year) cost up to $32. For parents who want their kids to grow up with a little bit of grunge, it's money well spent...
...listen to music while commuting to work or jogging-Sony all but invented multitasking, that combined benefit and scourge of modern life. Along the way, Sony's founders managed to pull off a difficult double act. On the one hand, they recognized that if the company was to grow to its full potential, it had to capture foreign markets. Basing himself in New York-when Sony opened its store on Fifth Avenue in 1962, it was the first time the Japanese flag had flown in the city since the war-Morita became the best-known Japanese businessman in the world...
...even without any cultural clashes, that will not be easy. Sony is a mature, $70 billion-a-year business; it can't grow as fast as it did when it was young and nimble. The company is known for fiefdoms and fierce battles between content units and hardware departments over compatibility, copyright and distribution issues. "You have to break down the silo walls that helped iTunes [Apple's online music store] clean our clock," says Stringer. "You've got to collect people who buy in to change-and if they don't, you have to move them...