Now to see whether or not honesty pays off for the company. That said it's easier to blow the whistle on yourself when the people involved aren't around anymore ("...all of [Griffith's] directors and senior executives have changed since the time of the offence.")
This appears to be the main body of Islamic scholars in the country which also contains the world's largest population of Muslims. "The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) is in favour of female circumcision ... that, although it can not be considered mandatory, it is still 'morally recommended.'" Again, male and female circumcision are practiced for more or less the same reasons and possess more or less the same risks and problems.
"The best-selling authors and leading London chefs have brought Jerusalem's cuisine to the world, but are left with a bitter aftertaste about Israel." Primarily this seems to be passport troubles at the Israeli Embassy in London for the one who's an Arab Israeli rather than a Jewish Israeli. I'm pretty willing to believe that official policy and treatment on the ground can differ.
"Jobs go begging in factories while many educated young workers are unemployed or underemployed. A national survey of urban residents, released this winter by a Chinese university, showed that among people in their early 20s, those with a college degree were four times as likely to be unemployed as those with only an elementary school education." The situation in the West doesn't seem all that different in its overemphasis on college education.
Naturally, there are statements opposing this from both "Denmark’s National Vicars’ Union" and a government minister. I'm going to guess this a state church with all the problems usually associated with such.
A University of Calgary researcher cited in the article: "For most of us, procrastination can be beaten down, but not entirely beaten ... My best trick is to play my projects off against each other, procrastinating on one by working on another. ... We are willing to pursue any vile task as long as it allows us to avoid something worse."
This time it's for a skin cream she's endorsed: "Callender says it's hypocritical of Winfrey to speak out against female genital mutilation, while saying it's all right to use a face cream made from foreskins from circumcised infant males. 'Imagine how Oprah would respond if a skin cream for men went on the market that was made from parts of the genitalia of little girls.'" In case you haven't guessed, I agree.
"The number of people in the city 65 or over is 31 percent, 8 points higher than the national average. Local food processing company Horinagashokusan raised the retirement age of its employees to 70 in 2008, with offers of continued employment for those who desire it. Currently the oldest employee is 79, and over half the 120 employees are 60 or over. 'If our employees quit at age 60, it would weaken us. Even if we wanted to employ young people, they aren't there, and it would be foolish not to make use of workers who are still healthy,' says company President Shinsaku Horinaga, 56. 'Our company is just ahead of others in the graying of its workers. Before long, everywhere will be like us.'"
The article notes that "researchers said, that doesn't prove the compound, called melamine, is harmful to kids and adults in the amounts detected when study participants ate hot soup from melamine bowls" yet I'm not sure that anything beyond this was proven with regards to BPA either.
"Men are being put off entering the profession for fear of being labelled as abusers or paedophiles, according to new research by the London Early Years Foundation. We found that 60 per cent of nursery workers felt the main reason for the low numbers of men in the sector was because, socially, men were not encouraged to join the profession, and 51 per cent thought that it was because of society’s attitude to men in childcare."
"Sleep is the second largest single use of time. However, new drugs such as Modafinil appear to vastly reduce the need for sleep without significant side effects (at least so far). Based on reports from users, it seems that people could ... cut their sleep requirements to as few as 2.5 hours a night without a decrease in mental acuity. That gives us another 5 hours to distribute over the day."
