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...larger problem with the new caffeinated inventions is that their labels don't typically disclose how much caffeine they contain. And yet some of them are crammed with the drug: Sumseeds, a brand of caffeinated sunflower seeds, contain 120 mg of caffeine per packet, 16% more than in a typical 6-oz. serving of coffee. Shower Shock soap is designed to deliver a crackling 200 mg of caffeine when lathered into the skin, twice the amount in that same cup of coffee...
...talented at the top as we have been in years past, but the fact that we can put out four strong skippers…I don’t think [the four divisions] hurt us,” Garrity said. “I think execution was the biggest problem...
...main problem with the new placards is that they will be ineffective. HUDS has stated that its goal was to help “people who have eating disorders or who struggle with issues around the literal value of food,” but people with eating disorders, especially educated ones, are able to count calories with or without numbers floating above the serving line. Sufferers of an eating disorder have memorized calorie counts for their foods, down to the caloric difference between a piece of grilled chicken cooked in butter compared with olive...
...Death solves all problems," Joseph Stalin once declared. "No man, no problem." While Stalin may be history, his management style remains in vogue. Indeed, in the latest government-sanctioned high-school history text, Stalin is described as someone who used "terror as a pragmatic means of resolving social and economic problems." And so contemporary Russian society has learned to see individual murder as a means of management as well...
...growth should stagnate. There’s something almost Malthusian about Stoll’s argument, and indeed his brief history of Malthus is not decidedly dismissive of Malthus’s infamous “trap.” Innovation is usually heralded as the solution to the problem of limited resources; after all, if Malthus could have foreseen the genetic engineering that was employed in the Green Revolution, would he have been so sure that agricultural production couldn’t sustain an interminably growing population?Stylistically, Stoll promises more than he can deliver in his attempt...