Word: redesign
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...smaller aperture of the lid has been designed to prevent hedgehogs from entering the McFlurry container in the unfortunate incidence that the lid is littered." MCDONALD'S, in a statement on its decision to redesign its cups after protests by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, which says the animals get stuck while trying to eat leftover ice cream, then starve to death...
...increase in suicides, depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence. If you've driven the city, you see why. We've not made a lot of progress," says cardiologist Pat Breaux, past head of the Orleans Parish Medical Society. He is part of a 40-member Louisiana Health Care Redesign Collaborative making recommendations this fall on changes in the city's health care system to Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services...
Meanwhile, in Congress, Representatives Mary Bono, a Republican from California, and Massachusetts Democrat Michael Capuano are sponsoring a House bill that would allow people to turn off their recorders--a provision that would require a complex redesign of air-bag systems. If EDRs are eventually installed in cars that can retain more than several seconds of data, says Bono, "information could be collected about our driving habits, and we might not even know it is happening...
...faster we rush, the more time is left afterward to steal. To satisfy this desire, McDonald's has announced a major redesign of its restaurants, swapping out the polymer chairs and melamine tables for cushioned fabrics, stainless-steel tables and plasma-screen televisions. By mimicking the look and feel of our own living rooms, McDonald's will now encourage lingering. (The line between lingering and loitering has not yet been determined...
...Bethea, chief medical officer at the INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City and a member of the study’s research team, in the teleconference. “And when they occur, it’s really better to consider possible causes of the unexpected finding, redesign the inquiry, and perform it again rather than try to overgeneralize from the results that you have in front of you.”“I think at this point, any scientific endeavor, a single study does not answer the question,” Dusek said in the teleconference...