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...will be some time until the true source is found. "We're not quite there yet," says Acheson, "but we're getting very close." But Dr. Ian Williams, chief of the CDC's OutbreakNet team, warns that the source may never be found due to the fruit's short shelf life. "You don't expect to find an infected tomato sitting on someone's counter 10 days after the outbreak," says Williams...
...vomiting - as sufficiently severe to warrant a visit to the doctor, and so they go undiagnosed. "There may be a delay in reporting outbreaks because people do not have a stool specimen tested," he says. Officials have not yet identified an infected tomato, and because of the fruit's short shelf life, they probably never will...
...hand soap in the restrooms. But in the end, the food manages to do the job alone. Dang's burger interpretations are very creative, and the quality of the ingredients and preparation have more in common with SoHo's better bistros than its fast food joints. The braised U.S. short-rib and truffle burger ($35) comes plated in an elegant open-faced tower of foie gras, green beans and shemeji mushrooms. The braised Wagyu oxtail and Iberian chorizo burger ($28), topped with Manchego and mushrooms, is slightly less rich, but presented with equal flourish...
...audition for the role of villain in the world's financial markets, sovereign wealth funds would have pushed sub-prime mortgages close in recent months. Huge, government-controlled investment pools from Abu Dhabi to China have helped to rescue Wall Street banks left short by the credit crisis - and still managed to leave Western governments feeling spooked. Their worry: the funds - swollen with foreign-currency reserves or billions in profits from oil and gas - might be hiding dark political motives behind fuzzy financial aims...
...Acute poverty makes it even harder to achieve CSR goals. Many migrants from northern China who come south for factory jobs want to earn as much as possible in a short time, then return home. Managers who refuse to let them work illegal overtime risk losing workers to less stringent factories. Likewise, in India, it's not possible to "create E.U.-like working conditions," says Anil Bhardwaj, of the New-Delhi based Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises. "It might hurt our conscience to know that a child sold into slavery for 500 rupees [12 dollars] is making...