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...even the Federal Government make it a lot harder for job searchers to be cautious on this count by requesting Social Security numbers to screen applicants. Wary job hunters have been known to do battle with corporate recruiters on this point. But if you've been out of work for months and are starting to panic, you might be far from enthusiastic about the prospect of antagonizing a prospective employer. Still, it's at least worth a call to the human-resources department to make sure the policy is etched in stone...
...such efforts have merely highlighted the growing trade. The Pharmaceutical Security Industry tracked more than 1,800 incidents of drug-counterfeiting around the world last year, 10 times the number when it first started monitoring seven years ago. Getting governments and law enforcers around the world to work more effectively to counter the problem has proved hard. (See the top 10 product recalls...
...that had killed 24 children. In Argentina, several women died in 2004 after receiving injections of a falsified iron-based medicine to treat anemia. And in 2006 more than 100 people in Panama died after taking medicines made with fake glycerin. Many times, the counterfeit drugs just don't work. This leads to a large number of preventable deaths, particularly in the developing world. (Read "The Desperate Need for New Antibiotics...
...most stuffy political memoirs. “I, for one, usually buy books written by a dead people, but I actually might read this book,” says Jonathan P. Hawley ’10. “It sounds fun. Any way a politician can make their work more interesting, the better...
...visiting another school? Table dancing can be fine as long as it’s dark in the room; body shots are probably not unless it’s a masquerade.An important factor in this ratio is drunkenness, but let’s be real—it can work in one of two ways. You can be responsible and multiply sketchiness by how many drinks you’ve had, giving you a much lower Non-Sketchy ratio. Do this if you’ve woken up someplace where you don’t remember falling asleep more than...