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...government make changes at the corporate level? Unfortunately there seems to be such a paralysis in government these days. I think Eric Schlosser's analogy about tobacco is a really important one. We were up against really powerful corporations, and ultimately they had great connections to government. But when we began to learn that nicotine really wasn't good for us, we were eventually able to put laws in practice that could tax and charge the real price for that product. I think as we start to understand these high, unseen costs, hopefully we'll start to put the real...
...people to eat in season? There are a few levels, one is as consumers become more conscious, hopefully we can force these grocery stores to start labeling. Where does the food come from? Is it from South America? Is it from China? Who makes it? What's in it? And as we start to get this information, it'll become easier and easier for consumers to start to make choices. In Food Inc., we're not telling people what they should eat. We're saying people should have the right to know what they eat. And they should know...
...consider this approach. "For parents, every minute that their dying child is alert and awake is precious," says Wolfe, who cautions that the study's results reflect instances in which there was 100% certainty a child would die soon. "So while we have legal options to control pain and make sure patients are pain-free, some are not viable for parents." (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...
...want to make sure you get enough sleep on Tuesday night, you might have to get to bed earlier. You don't have to adjust your schedule by much: about 1.26 millionths of a second ought to do it. According to a NASA scientist's computer modeling, that's how much an Earth day should have been shortened by the subterranean upheaval that triggered the Feb. 27 earthquake in Chile. Some basic physics explains why. (See pictures of Chile's massive earthquake...
...with consistent archetypes: the underdog, the obvious filler, the perhaps-not-particularly-deserving-this-year-but-boy-is-it-about-time-she-won-already. The winner selection process, intrinsically tainted by Academy politics, is anything but quantitative—statistically, even the most impulsive civilian guesser is likely to make at least one correct prediction. This lends a satisfying, authoritative feel to one’s preferences regarding, for instance, Meryl Streep—who should be given an Oscar every year, by default, just to thank her for being Meryl Streep—versus Sandra Bullock?...