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Fueling that trend is rapidly evolving technology that helps detect microscopic, seemingly insignificant amounts of allergen protein in foods. Whenever that happens, the FDA can order a recall...
...Reversing a Trend Tilson's early relationship with Chinese officialdom was almost scuppered by an inconvenient truth. In 2000, he and Minnesota Zoo teamed up with the SFA to make a census of wild South China tigers. They surveyed eight reserves in seven provinces over 18 months, set up hundreds of camera traps and investigated reports of any sighting - but found none. It was the first documented case of a tiger subspecies disappearing from the wild since the Javan tiger did so in the 1970s. Western colleagues cautioned Tilson that his gloomy conclusion would irritate the SFA. "They were right...
According to the study, “teachers improve rapidly in early years,” but this trend flattens out after the fourth year...
...these items may be popular with consumers, but the trend has triggered a heated response from family advocacy groups. Norman Wells, director of the Britain-based Family Education Trust, says the Debenhams gift registry deliberately glorifies divorce, something he says could have been avoided had the chain devised a more generic "setting up new home" gift list. "This smacks of a cynical attempt by a high street chain to cash in on the misery of people whose marriages have come under pressure," Wells says...
Putnam also noted that the generation of individuals who grew up in the aftermath of Sept. 11 appeared to be reversing this trend by forming stronger and more lasting social connections. But he tempered this optimism by pointing out that the trend is occurring along class lines—working class youth are more likely than ever to be emotionally and interpersonally isolated...