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...HomeAway is hiring for a very simple reason: people who own houses and want to rent them out are happy to pay $300 a year to have the company spread the word - which it did in a Super Bowl commercial. "Jobs get created by providing a product or service that's better than what's out there," says Sharples. "There was an existing market for vacation rentals, and we've created efficiencies in that market. Now that it's cheaper and more efficient, more people are doing it, and the market is expanding...
...teams know they'll be in a 96-team tournament, is their regular-season game as attractive a product? "I think we all in college basketball have to be certain that we try to protect what's so special about it," says Dan Gavitt, associate commissioner for the Big East Conference. One expert recently predicted that 13 out of the 16 Big East teams would have qualified for a 96-team tournament. So you would think that a guy like Gavitt would be pushing hard for a larger field. However, knowing that such a scenario would render the Big East...
...Linda McAvan, a member of the European Parliament from Britain's Labour Party and a supporter of the color-coded food labels, echoes that sentiment. "There is evidence that consumer pressure generated through the traffic-light scheme can lead to product reformulation by retailers," she says. "One major retailer told me how their least healthy sandwich range was phased out when labeling was introduced, as people stopped buying the high-fat and -salt options." (See "Cutting Salt Can Have Big Health Benefits...
...agency has different thresholds for acceptable lead levels depending on the product and how it is to be used, says FDA spokesperson Ira Allen. For example, in 2006 the agency lowered its acceptable level of lead in candy, which children are likely to eat in large amounts. The FDA also reaffirmed its position that paints used in candy labels should be entirely lead-free, or they would be in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. "We look at imports and we look for lead and other elements," says Allen. "But we do it on a targeted basis...
Since last spring, the agency has been reviewing its protocols for spices, to determine whether the risk of contamination or exposure to elements such as lead from dried products imported from overseas warrants more scrutiny. "We have extensive surveying of imported foods at major ports," says Allen. "Obviously we can't look at everything, but we do target inspection based on where the food comes from and what the history of the product is, and we do ban certain products...