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...list produced a number of surprises. SC Johnson, which makes household products such as Ziploc, Raid and Windex, debuted on the list in the top 10. That can be chalked up to a recent ad campaign to familiarize consumers with the parent company's name and values, says Robert Fronk, a Harris senior vice president who oversaw the survey. Another newcomer: Goldman Sachs, which made the list for the first time, at No. 56, four spots from the bottom. "Here's a company that members of the public would never interact with suddenly on the list," says Fronk. Credit...
...international community rejected U.S.-led efforts to expand protections for a number of endangered and threatened species at a meeting of the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Of the roughly 40 proposals on the agenda, the most contentious dealt with a prized fish. Japan, which imports nearly 80% of bluefin tuna for use in sushi and sashimi, fought hard against a proposed trade ban. Conservationists warned against prioritizing economic interests over the survival of an entire species...
...American Association of University Women report found that although the number of women entering science and engineering fields is growing, gender biases still affect their career aspirations. While boys and girls graduate from high school with similar math and science grades and the ratio of males to females who score above 700 on the math SAT has narrowed from 13:1 to 3:1 in the past three decades, women still earn only 20% of bachelor's degrees in physics and engineering...
...still bear the mental scars of a question on a philosophy exam in college that left me whimpering at its wicked simplicity: "Could the number two change its properties?" I'd been raised to think numbers were as close to reliable as anything could be, so clean and clear and immune to argument. Some are odd, some round, some lucky, but three will always be one less than four...
...made me feel that I counted. But there was no way, surveying my household, that I could choose who would be Person 2 - unless, of course, the number two somehow could change its properties...