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#McKinsey & Company — Wikipédia
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En 2018, McKinsey a été classé à la première position du classement Vault[3] des cinquante meilleurs cabinets de conseil mondiaux, et a été jugé l’employeur post-MBA le plus attrayant par les diplômés des dix programmes #MBA les plus sélectifs[4]. En 2007, seize CEO d’entreprises mondiales cotées à plus de 2 milliards de dollars étaient des anciens de McKinsey & Company, classant l’entreprise comme la plus fertile en futurs CEOs (classement USA Today 2008[5]).

The iconic U.S. company raising the stature of corrupt governments around the world | The Seattle Times
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McKinsey’s clients have included the Saudis, Turkey, Ukraine, China and Kremlin-linked firms in Russia. The company defends its work around the world, saying that it will not accept jobs at odds with its values.

#sic “#nos_valeurs”

Acidification eating away at tiny sea snails | Sea Change: Ocean acidification | The Seattle Times
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““These changes are happening years earlier than we had projected,” said Nina Bednarsek, a research fellow with NOAA who inspected the pteropods to identify shell scarring. “It is really a first indication of what is going on in our ecosystem.”” - Raffa

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“Mayor McGinn goes all out on Whole Foods over worker pay | Local News | The Seattle Times”
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Census: 1 in 6 India city residents lives in slums | Nation & World | The Seattle Times
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About one in six Indian city residents lives in an urban slum with unsanitary conditions that are “unfit for human habitation,” according to the first complete census of India’s vast slum population.

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While the report described open sewers and poverty, it also shows that many slum residents have cellphones and televisions in their shacks and have made do with a lack of government infrastructure by rigging up elaborate, mostly illegal, systems to supply electricity.

Does giving antibiotics to animals hurt humans? | The Seattle Times
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In 1999, the European Union backed a ban on penicillin and other human antibiotics for growth in farm animals. Within four years, the use of antibiotics on animals fell 36 percent in Denmark, 45 percent in Norway and 69 percent in Sweden.

Levy, the Tufts University professor, and his colleagues had hoped that the EU’s ban would bolster the case for restricting the use of antibiotics in the U.S. But instead, the data has been used to argue both sides of the issue.

#antibiotiques #résistances #agro-alimentaire

#Canada kept detection of salmon virus #secret | Seattle Times Newspaper
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A decade before this fall’s salmon-virus scare, a Canadian government researcher said she found a similar virus in more than 100 wild fish from Alaska to Vancouver Island.

Canadian officials never told the public or scientists in the United States about those tests — not even after evidence of the virus discovered in October was treated as an international emergency, according to documents and emails obtained by The Seattle Times.

#recherche #mer #santé #information #cdp