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...Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, sees most of the meat and dairy lobby's arguments as desperate, disingenuous scare stories. "It unmasks the industry's self-interest," he says, "when it voices concern about B12 while hundreds of thousands of people are dying prematurely because of too much saturated fat from meat and dairy products." Indeed, according to David Pimentel, a Cornell ecologist, the average American consumes 112 grams of protein a day, twice the amount recommended by the National Academy of Sciences. "This has implications for cancer risks...
...those in the West, so Hastings plans to open enough distribution centers to have the whole country within a day's coverage. The recommendation service needs tweaking too: "I've rated 600 movies, and it's still telling me I would like to see Star Trek," says Kendra Jacobson, 31, of San Francisco. Still, she liked the service so much she turned her mom onto it--and both have stopped using Blockbuster...
Highfields, an investment firm started by Richard Grubman and former Harvard Management Company (HMC) investor Jonathan S. Jacobson, received an initial investment of $500 million from the University...
...HarvardWatch report calls for the University to launch an investigation into whether Winokur—who worked with Jacobson for two years as a director of HMC—leaked information to Jacobson about Enron’s impending demise...
...attorneys meeting in the Washington offices of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson last week were running on empty. Lawyers from Microsoft and state attorneys general had been toiling through a long weekend that stretched until Tuesday, finessing an agreement that would finally end their epic three-year legal battle. As negotiators went through the 20-page document line by line, one of the lawyers fell asleep amid the piled-up pizza boxes and coffee cups; his snoring could be heard on speakerphones in state offices thousands of miles away. "It was like one of those games where the last person...