Word: schlosser
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...Eric Schlosser's non-fiction best-seller Fast Food Nation suggested that, if Big Macs and Whoppers weren't killing the average American (who consumes three burgers and four orders of French fries a week), they were stuffing him with toxic waste. The book, and Schlosser's kid-friendly sequel Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food, might have made for a stinging documentary film. But that was too simple for him and director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, School of Rock); or maybe they thought that Morgan Spurlock's Super Size...
Astronomer Wolfhard Schlosser and Historian Werner Bergmann of Ruhr-University Bochum, in West Germany, were led to their conclusion by the discovery of references to Sirius in the chronicles of a Frankish bishop, Gregory of Tours. Written around A.D. 577, Gregory's tome was designed to provide monasteries with clear instructions for setting their predawn prayer schedules; thus it listed for each month the time that certain constellations would rise above the horizon. From the rise times and periods of visibility, the researchers report in the journal Nature, they were able to identify Sirius, which Gregory called Rubeola or Robeola...
...content higher than normal for stars of its type. The excess metal, they say, could have been showered on Sirius A when its red giant companion collapsed and exploded. The fact that no other evidence of an explosion exists, and that most astronomers say it should, does not disturb Schlosser. "Because of Sirius," he says, "we may have to change our theories about the life and metamorphosis of stars." --By Leon Jaroff. Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York and William McWhirter/Bonn
Fast food makers have a less-than-stellar public health record, as Eric Schlosser exposed in his book Fast Food Nation. To deny that the industry could in no way be deemed culpable for its obesity-promoting tactics would be naive. Admittedly, not every lawsuit holds the same weight, and proponents of blanket immunity often counter that legislation is needed to prevent the onslaught of frivolous lawsuits that might follow a single successful case. But just as the real solution to obesity is not blaming the fast food industry and leaving it at that, the real solution to frivolous lawsuits...
...Schlosser isn't attacking the pot industry here; he's going after the institutional hypocrisies that force it underground while leaving far more damaging practices, like the abuse of migrant workers, to fester openly. What ties Reefer Madness together is Schlosser's passionate belief that America is deeply neurotic, a nation divided against itself into a sunny, whitewashed mainstream and a lusty, angry, deeply denied subconscious. He just might be the shrink America needs. His next book will take on the prison system, and it will complete what amounts to a three-volume history of the underbelly of late...