Waddington’s Valleys and Captain Cook’s Islands

Too Many Cooks

F or decades, U.S. consumers took safe food for granted. That changed recently with outbreaks associated with E. coli and Listeria in the United States and reports of madcow disease in Europe. These outbreaks have focused attention on an issue that is extraordinarily complex. Indeed, food safety encompasses everything from food-borne pathogens to residue levels for pesticides and animal drugs, ...

Too Many Cooks?

In March 1996, some five years into an economic recovery, the New York Times ran a series of front-page articles entitled, "Downsizing in America." The stories chronicled the fortunes (and misfortunes) of American workers recently downsized and restructured out of their jobs. The series fueled ongoing concern and public debate about the changing prospects for U.S. workers, particularly those wi...

Captain Thomas Dover

were disbanded because of hooliganism. They have been restarted in this century and take place on the first weekend in May. The games consisted of various contests at single stick (backsword), wrestling, running, jingling, Morris dancing, greyhound coursing and horse racing. It is said that Shakespeare, whose aunt Joan Arden lived at Barton on the Heath, attended the games and included scenes f...

Captain E. B. Hartnell

Captain Edward Mills Grace