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...food manufacturers to voluntarily lower salt levels since 1979 have “failed miserably.” Referring to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the petition states that the average daily sodium consumption is substantially higher than recommended and has increased over the past 25 years, rising from about 2,800 mg in 1976–80 to about 3,400 mg in 1999–2000. The petition also refers to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, jointly released by the Department for Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, which estimates that...
GLADWELL: One of the most striking things in observing the evolution of American society is the rise of travel. If I had to name a single thing that has transformed our life, I would say the rise of JetBlue and Southwest Airlines. They have allowed us all to construct new geographical identities for ourselves. Many working people today travel who never could have in the past, for meetings and conferences and all kinds of things, and this is creating another identity for them...
GLADWELL: Some interesting things come out of all of this travel. I would expect an acceleration of the declining importance of nationality. The rise of transnationalism is already an important recent trend. There are pockets in Queens [N.Y.] that maintain active ties with home in Mexico. If you extrapolate, I don't think foreign policy or any kind of politics can be practiced the way it is now in a country where enormous numbers of people genuinely have dual identities and reinforce them by flying back and forth to their adoptive countries for nothing...
GLADWELL: One of the big trends in American society is the transformation of the evangelical movement and the rise of a more mature, sophisticated, culturally open evangelical church. Ten years from now, I don't think we're going to have the kinds of arguments about religion that we have today. Even the fight over intelligent design, to me, is a harbinger of a trend, which is that the religious world is increasingly willing to put its issues on the table and discuss them in the context of the secular world. Let's argue about evolution vs. creation, using...
Salaries of business school graduates are on the rise thanks in part to a revival of the banking and consulting industries, but the number of applicants to Harvard Business School (HBS) has been declining in recent years. According to a report published by Bloomberg.com, a financial news website, the average compensation of June graduates of the HBS Master of Business Administration (MBA) program increased 11 percentage points to $174,580. Increased job hires by firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are partially responsible for driving the rise in salaries. Business school class of 2005 hires...