As a 19-year-old philosophy student in Paris, Jens Martin Skibsted had a watershed moment when the bicycle protest against cars he was riding in came to a sudden halt. The roadblock
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Beauty Queen: Estee Lauder
Leonard Lauder, chief executive of the company his mother founded, says she always thought she “was growing a nice little business.” And that it is. A little business that controls 45% of the cosmetics market in U.S
In Defense of Myhrvold: Give ‘Modernist Cuisine’ a Break
It’s only natural, I suppose, for a $625 five-volume, epochal publishing event like Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine to polarize the food world. After all, this is the book the whole culinary world has been waiting for: “the cookbook to end all cookbooks,” as David Chang called it.
Steam and Bean Sprouts: On the Trail of the Killer Bacteria
After first sending Spain’s agricultural industry into a tailspin by falsely accusing that country’s cucumbers, German authorities on June 5 pointed a finger of blame at local beansprouts — specifically the produce of an organic farm in the village of Bienenbttel, around 70 kilometers south of Hamburg — as the source of an outbreak of deadly E.
Big Pharma Faces a Crackdown in Europe
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the few sectors around that appears to be weathering these difficult times with relative ease.
The Real Skinny
Finger-pointing is not a recognized weight-loss exercise.
All in the Family
As the founder and owner of ComputerLand, William Millard, 53, built a billion-dollar business on an old-fashioned notion: it is better to be feared than loved.
How the Floods May Restore Louisiana’s Wetlands
The talk of New Orleans has centered on whether the most severe Mississippi River flood in more than a quarter-century will cause catastrophic damage to a city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. And for good reason: the flood has carved a destructive path from from Cairo, Illinois, to Vicksburg, Mississippi, and prompted Louisiana’s Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, to ask the federal government for emergency assistance
‘Animal Factory’ Author David Kirby on Industrial Farming
If you eat meat, the odds are high that you’ve enjoyed a meal made from an animal raised on a factory farm . According to the USDA, 2% of U.S.
Are Asian Free-Trade Agreements Producing a New Bloc?
The great recession hasn’t been great for free trade. As unemployment has risen throughout the world, governments have become more focused on protecting their own industries than on promoting international commerce