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...wages in check in part by shifting more work to part-time employees, who now constitute over 33% of Japan's workforce, up from 20% in 1992. Business leaders insist wages must be suppressed for Japanese companies to compete globally, but Katz points out that enforced fiscal austerity is toxic for the economy as a whole. "If every company cuts wages at the same time, no one is going to buy your products," he says. "That is what's happening...
Chinese shoppers are used to warnings about tainted food. According to a November report by the Asian Development Bank, food-borne disease affects 300 million Chinese per year, costing up to $14 billion in lost productivity and medical expenses. But a recent string of high-profile health scares involving toxic ingredients has consumers worried about more than a stomachache...
...genetic changes and vulnerabilities present in an individual’s cancer,” wrote Myles Brown, chief of the Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at Dana-Farber, in an e-mail. “This is sure to lead to both more effective and less toxic treatments and improved outcomes for our patients.” —Staff writer Xianlin Li can be reached at li3@fas.harvard.edu...
...from past strategies and international manipulations of radio—such as Radio Radcliffe and Radio Universidad in Oaxaca—to re-orient themselves to radio’s possibilities. And in Minot, North Dakota, the failure of corporate radio stations to alert the public about an impending toxic cloud (really, we don’t make this up) made the need for local control over Emergency Alert Systems all too obvious.So please—tune in, turn on and don’t drop out. Radio has shown itself to be a resilient media force that just won?...
Hudson said that the nation’s cultural environment is “toxic,” referring to the prevalence of desk-job careers, Hollywood waifs, and fatty snacks. But it is unclear whether such an environment solely causes binge eating, which is habitual and associated with a “sense of loss of control,” Hudson said...