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...director of technology at Kraft Foods. Wilson and his team of food scientists and engineers have invested 30,000 hours in trying to convert the Oreo we know and love into one that tastes just like the original but is considerably less likely to clog snackers' arteries. The challenge: rid the recipe of its trans-fatty acids, a component of the fats as essential to the cookie's cream-infused crunch and texture as the circle is to its unbitten form. "We've tested over 200 recipes in 100 different trials, across 16 manufacturing lines," says Wilson. "The formulation...
...time limit for protecting whistle-blowers' jobs? The Bush Administration seems to think so. Case in point: Ernie Fitzgerald, the Air Force cost analyst who in 1969 told Congress about $2 billion in cost overruns on the C-5 cargo plane, prompting President Nixon to tell officials to "get rid of that son of a bitch." A court order saved Fitzgerald's job, but he says it's under threat again. Fitzgerald, 79, tells TIME his role has eroded under President Bush. His reports on how much aircraft should cost "have been ignored" by superiors, he says...
...Most importantly, we want the pub to have character,” Corker says. “We want to get rid of the staleness of Loker Commons right...
...used to be much more difficult to go abroad than it is now,” Edwards said. “We’ve tried to get rid of as many obstacles as we can. We’ve tried to make sure students can get the funding they need and that there is no uncertainty about [academic] credit...
...rid of poverty, you may have to go down and plant a tree; then at least you will have taken action,” Maathai said...