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Rather than relying on such underestimates, the Produce Safety Project study used CDC data showing that there are 76 million new cases of foodborne illness in the U.S. each year. Study author Robert Scharff, a professor at Ohio State University and a former FDA economist, then tried to account for the overall cost of illness, factoring in every expense, from onetime costs for prescription medication to losses in "quality of life" - a dollars-and-cents picture of exactly how miserable that bout with a bad falafel made you. "The study really illustrates just how serious foodborne illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Price Tag on Food Unsafety | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

Sarah Champlin-Scharff, the social studies department administrator and Burch’s supervisor, refused to comment on Burch’s firing. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Robert P. Mitchell confirmed that Burch is no longer employed by Harvard...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Online Weblog Leads To Firing | 5/26/2004 | See Source »

Burch said she had a meeting with her supervisors and her union representative on Monday, during which Champlin-Scharff presented her with printouts from the weblog and questioned her about them. According to Burch, the Hanna quote turned out to be only a secondary concern for the department—the journal link was the real reason for her dismissal...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Online Weblog Leads To Firing | 5/26/2004 | See Source »

...Edward Jones, 27, and Charles Bergstresser, 24--started Dow Jones & Co. to pick up news and gossip and then peddle them to brokers, bankers and slippery speculators. In 1889 Dow Jones launched the Wall Street Journal, a four-page stock-and-bond paper. Price: 2[cents]. As Edward Scharff writes in his book about the company, Worldly Power, "The Dow Jones messenger boys and reporters hustled advertising and subscriptions while they made their rounds... Much of the financial advertising in the Journal was placed to buy the newspaper's silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words To Profit By | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Some focus heroically on the bright side. "It's exciting," says Monroe Scharff, a Bush neighbor. "How often do you find a beautiful place that is ; also the summer residence of the President of the United States?" And selectman Joe Finn trumpets, "We've been in the London Times and the Hong Kong Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kennebunkport, Me. A Small Town Goes Prime-Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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