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...nominate Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is an economist who has committed himself to the concept of economic development as a method of reducing poverty-related disease. His latest initiative, Breaking the Bottlenecks, aims to cut through the red tape that slows the creation and distribution of malaria-prevention and -treatment programs in 10 African countries...
...been done on the long-term health effects of composite fillings. The IAOMT filed complaints against Harvard, the University of Washington, the University of Maine, and other sponsors of the study on Tuesday with each of the respective institutional review boards. Bellinger, however, defended the study’s methods and said that telling the parents about the experimental method would not have contributed to the quality of the study. “These things are always complicated,” he said. “So, we could have told the parents how many micrograms [of mercury] were...
CLAIM TO FAME In 2000 Lowry and Ryan, high school friends from Detroit, decided to contest the idea that stronger chemicals make for better household cleaners. They introduced Method, a mass-market line of health-conscious and aromatic dish and hand soaps, bathroom cleansers, surface cleaners, laundry detergents, floor-care products and air fresheners. "It's been pounded into our heads that you can't have safe and effective products in one," says Lowry, who studied chemical engineering and environmental science at Stanford University. "That isn't true...
...BREAK Method positions itself as a brand that benefits, above all, personal well-being. The company's mission, "People Against Dirty," points to the harmful ingredients in cleaners as the real pollutants in our homes. Two years ago, Method came out with a triple-concentrated biodegradable laundry detergent and now the competition is catching on (Unilever launched its version, All Small & Mighty, last fall). Lowry says that if all detergents were to switch to concentrated formula, it would save 400 million gal. of water and about 200 million lbs. of plastic a year...
DESIGN TOUCHSTONE Method is not only health conscious, but the brand's sleek packaging, conceived by award-winning industrial designer Karim Rashid, also redefines the category with scrubs and sprays that actually look stylish on countertops...