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...more and more consumers choose products that don’t contain it, the CRA faces a crisis in the making. It desperately needs to draw a line between high-fructose corn syrup and junk food in the American mind. And so began an 18-month campaign in late June 2008 to promote the substance. The CRA’s website, sweetsurprise.com, includes quotes from “experts” to assure consumers of high- fructose corn syrup’s benignity, a “myth vs. fact” section, not to mention images of smiling, adorable...
...good leader is decisive.” This appears as a full entry dated June 6, 2009. It’s listed under a section I labeled “Career Research” in my online Google Notebook. This is the specific tab where I’ve been keeping track of all such brilliant kernels of thought that I might want to bring up during a job interview this year. “Decisive”—what a good word. Now I’m employable...
...vast gas reserves. A new pipeline from Turkmenistan is scheduled to begin gas shipments to China in December via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, both gas-rich countries. China also has access to the world's largest natural gas field, the South Pars, which is shared by Iran and Qatar. In June, CNPC purchased a block of the Iran-owned South Pars field after the French energy giant Total walked away from the bid for fear of antagonizing the French government, which was attempting to impose tighter sanctions on Iran. (See pictures of Iran's presidential elections and their turbulent aftermath...
...people with brown skin for the most stupid of offenses - honking their horn, having a taillight out, not signaling when they change lanes - I have to wonder how anyone could not see this as an assault on an entire race of people." - Columnist Jana Bommersbach (PhoenixJune...
...residents. They have put our residents' well-being, and the well-being of law-enforcement officers, at risk." - A letter from Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon to the then U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey calling for an investigation into whether Arpaio had committed civil rights violations. (Phoenix New Times, June...