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...particularly if you're rebranding it as a meat product. A few years ago, Australia's food industry was trying to figure out how to get more people to think of the kangaroo, which is part of the country's official coat of arms, as something that is edible rather than adorable. In 2005, the trade magazine Food Companion International ran a global competition for suggestions on what to call kangaroo meat. The magazine received 2,700 entries from more than 40 nations. Proposed names included rooviande, kangasaurus, jumpmeat and MOM (meat of marsupials). The winner was something more taxonomic...
...along the way, though, things took a turn. Much has been written about why some economies thrive while others flail. But compared with works like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, Beattie's take is markedly less deterministic. Corruption may have killed Africa, he notes, but it worked rather well in South Korea, where bribery attained taxlike precision. Beattie, an editor at the Financial Times, develops a few themes: free trade is good. Infrastructure is unsexy but vital. Capital cities are best kept small (making rioting less likely). For the most part, though, he tosses evidence on the table...
...they have a thorough understanding of the types of computer programs that are going to be a part of their lives for years to come? How about offering courses in law and personal economics? What is their understanding of what it takes to live a healthy lifestyle? I rather doubt that calculus would be among those courses. James F. Robertson, WOOSTER, OHIO...
...education is not stressed at home. I am a teacher in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, and the students have after-school programs and Saturday academy and even go to school during Christmas vacation yet remain way behind their suburban counterparts. Most of the parents would rather their kids be street smart than book smart. Arne Duncan cites schools that have longer hours as being more successful, yet there are plenty that aren't. If Duncan wants so badly for poorer kids to improve, let them go to school longer. It's unfair to impose this...
...baseball analysis tools to Major League teams. One of the teams he pitched his product to was the Cardinals, and following a presentation Kantrovitz gave to the St. Louis brass in 2004, Mozeliak offered him a new career in the game he loves—in the front office rather than on the field.Taking on added responsibility at a steady rate, Kantrovitz excelled as he learned the ins and outs of various aspects of the Cardinals organization, from scouting to international operations to quantitative analysis.The statistical aspect of player evaluation particularly piqued Kantrovitz’s interest, and he decided...