McDonald's and Yum! Brands apologized to customers after footage from a Chinese TV station alleged workers at a Shanghai supplier picked up meat off the factory floor and used it rather than disposing of it.
Work gets a terrible press. Pick up the paper on any day and you'll read about how work is killing our marriages, generating stress, depriving children of 'quality time', hollowing out local communities, and depressing us.
In his original message, N mentioned another member of his family, a seven-year-old girl, who could count to 100 in three languages and could pick out words spoken in other languages and say what they meant.
"All the microwaves coming down from space would have been absorbed by clouds or water vapour in the atmosphere before they reached our instruments. That is why we picked Chajnantor," says astronomer Dr. Murdin.
Chajnantor is high and dry - perfect for picking up microwaves. This selection is also particularly appropriate, for mankind has been exploiting the aridity of the Atacama desert for millennia.
But collecting microwave radiation has one major drawback, as Esteban Illanes of the European Southern Observatory, explains. 'It is absorbed by water. An observatory at sea level would pick up nothing.
After setting sail from Libya in rubber inflatables, wooden fishing boats or other rickety, overcrowded vessels, migrants are picked up by the Italian navy and taken to Sicily.
Grandparents love nothing more than a call from a grandchild, except when they’re being taken to the cleaners. In a common scam, victims who pick up the phone are told by an impersonator that their grandchild is in trouble.