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...These outbreaks, warns Doyle, are an inevitable by-product of the way that many fruit and vegetable manufacturers have streamlined their production - and cut costs - by doing some of the processing of their ready-to-eat produce right in the fields, and not in the more controlled atmosphere of a factory. He sees it as a dangerous practice that could contribute to contamination. "Two to three years ago, I was asked to go out and view what was going on in the fields when there was an outbreak associated with a fast food restaurant chain from their cut-up lettuce...
Brainard said that among the approximately 100 submissions gathered through the official survey, many students suggested names similar to the final product. The LCC liked the presence of the word ‘library’ in the name, which reminded students that the café was part of a study area, she said...
...selective data; the audience of prescribing physicians is primed with a beautiful array of advertisements and educational promotion; the “thought leaders” among physicians are paid to lecture and influence; academics further work mightily to expand a disease concept to include greater application of product; emoluments are funneled to favored physicians to perform pseudo-research “seeding studies” to introduce prescription momentum into communities, and finally, platoons of sales agents (90,000 currently) arrive with catered lunches in physicians’ offices, carrying loads of starter samples. There’s nothing...
...editors: Re: “Abortion: A Product of Its Times,” op-ed, Sep. 13. Evolutionary theory suggests that human beings are inclined to do many things that are morally problematic. Many evolutionary biologists believe that the evolution of men incline them toward the reproductive strategy of impregnating numerous women and committing only minimally (or not at all) to each of them. Yet it would be absurd to conclude from this fact that men are morally justified in exploiting and abandoning women! Similarly, Darwinism might help us to understand why some women seek out abortions...
...editors: Re: “Abortion: A Product of Its Times,” op-ed, Sep. 13. Although I abhor analyses that are grounded in social darwinism, I do agree with one of N. Kathy Lin’s insights, namely, that the way to abolish abortion is to create a world in which women are not driven to abort their children because of socioeconomic considerations. Banning abortion through statutes will not change the fact that women feel trapped by the burden of unwanted pregnancies. I sincerely believe that the only way we can abolish abortion is to give...