Word: wakefulness
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...contrary, industry powers like the Grocery Manufacturers Association now support the new oversight, which reflects corporate anxiety over the volatile current system and a recognition that they need a government imprimatur to establish credibility with consumers. Peanut-butter manufacturers, after all, saw sales decline 13% in the wake of the salmonella outbreak, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The spinach industry lost more than $350 million after a wave of E. coli infections linked to California growers was implicated in five deaths. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...their genius arose in part because of their migraines rather than in spite of them. He entertains the idea that migraines "make the clear moments that much clearer, the dark moments that much more unreachable." There is a quasi-Buddhist discipline to enduring them, and they leave in their wake a mind worn smooth and bright by their passage. In 1910, Virginia Woolf, sensing a headache coming on, prepped herself for inspiration. "I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe," she wrote in a letter to her sister. "It will be exquisite by September...
...Though Americans will wake up this morning shocked by the harshness of the verdict, they shouldn't be. This is, sadly, business as usual for the North. The regime in Pyongyang is nothing if not a Mafia state - a family-run dynasty that funds itself in part through a variety of illicit businesses, such as illegal arms sales and counterfeiting U.S. currency. For decades, international kidnapping has been in its playbook. (See pictures of North Korea's secrets and lies at LIFE.com...
...There are other risks, however. In the wake of the recent California Supreme Court ruling upholding Prop 8, gay-rights activists and others have vowed to put the issue of gay marriage back in front of voters, perhaps by as early as 2010. If they win, gay marriages will resume - a big victory for the movement, but one that would likely halt Olson and Boies' case in its tracks. Since all four plaintiffs in the federal suit are Californians, a victory at the polls would mean they have no claim to pursue...
...wake of economic tumult that has left Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences with a projected $220 million budget deficit, a diverse slate of student jobs will be eliminated next year as part of larger cost-cutting measures, leaving undergraduates with more limited options for term-time employment...