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...hearing the perspectives of other White House Fellows was extremely helpful. 7. FM: You worked on bioterrorism while you were there. So, what’s the verdict? Are we safe? HAZ: I think that there is an extremely talented group of scientists and public health experts working to protect America, however, there is always a risk out there. 8. FM: What do you think the Obama administration’s number one priority should be in terms of public health? HAZ: Of course everyone’s really focused on the uninsured, and how can they not be? Actually...
According to a report by the Cambridge Trans Fat Task Force, the decision to ban artificial trans fat was based on scientific evidence linking trans fat to many health problems—including diabetes, heart disease, and obesity—as well as the desire to protect consumers, who may not know the trans fat content of meals prepared outside the home...
...recession is another factor in the sales jump. Guns are expensive - Baker, for example, paid $200 for her shotgun - yet fear trumps the cost of a weapon for people worried that the economic crisis will lead to more crime. "Protection of the family, protection of the home, is utmost on people's minds," says Keffer. Many big cities have indeed seen crime tick higher during the downturn. But in the wrong psyche, this sentiment can carry deadly consequences. For example, the mother of the Pittsburgh man who shot and killed the police officers said her son had been stockpiling guns...
Their youthfulness as a society, sense of separateness from the rest of China, colonial history and disappointment at administrations that have failed to protect many structures of historical significance from the relentless march of development means that the people of Hong Kong are some of the most probing in the world when it comes to questions of cultural and personal identity. Issues of belonging are a theme of local art and letters to the point of tiresomeness, and barely a month goes by without an exhibition (or poetry reading or play) referencing some vanished heritage or collective memory...
...Rather than demanding that people protect the environment by introducing it through education programs, environmentalists have the opportunity to motivate people to protect it for the same reason that the environmentalists do: because they have an understanding of, and legitimate concern for, it. While it may be easier to tell people not to do something, making them not want to do it is a more effective means of protection...