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...Schools of education tend to be at the margins of the university,” she said...
This is a particularly blunt exposition of the problem. Still, Krauthammer’s basic model of American political culture is both correct and starkly noticeable here in Cambridge. Campus leftists tend to feel the moral high ground is automatically theirs; conservatives tend to believe they are the true intellects and that, while the liberals they oppose have soft hearts, they have softer heads...
Consumers tend to be less price sensitive when buying health and beauty products and less attracted to private-label store brands than when they're shopping for, say, dishwashing liquid. And with many beauty products, "people are always willing to try something new," says Marc Pritchard, vice president of P&G's suddenly hot cosmetics division. Its Cover Girl and Max Factor lines are enjoying banner sales with the introduction of their Outlast and Lipfinity long-lasting lipsticks. Of course, the success of cosmetics and other beauty products depends much more on fashion and sex appeal than do sales...
...vegetable oils tend to be less stable and turn rancid more quickly than animal fats. So many outlets switched again, turning to vegetable oils that have been hydrogenated--a process that fills open slots in unsaturated fat molecules with hydrogen atoms, allowing vegetable oils to stay fresh longer while still cooking up fries that are crisp and tasty...
Most of the money in trash, though, is not in recycling but in hauling and dumping the stuff, which just keeps coming in good times and bad. The business "doesn't tend to have technological leaps," says Bill Wolpin, editorial director of the journal Waste Age. "It's an industry that's still struggling with computers." Indeed, high-tech gimmickry is exceedingly thin on the ground at Waste Expo; four lonely exhibitors huddle forlornly in the "Technology Pavilion," fully half a mile from the main entrance and conveniently adjacent to the "Medical Waste Pavilion." Tracey Anderson of CFA, which markets...