NSA Scandal, Hummus Goes Mainstream, Pot Vending Machines And More

June 10, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Controversial Company's Quest To Push Hummus Mainstream Is About Much More Than Chickpeas Last winter, executives from the snack-food empire Frito-Lay invited Ronen Zohar, the Israeli head of America's biggest hummus company, to watch the Super Bowl from a luxury suite at the Superdome in New Orleans. For the snack-food industry, the Super Bowl amounts to something like Christmas and every kid's birthday party wrapped into one, a day on which the average American consumes the caloric equivalent of 20 servings of Utz's sour cream and onion dip. For Sabra, whose red-rimmed tubs of hummus are increasingly found inside American refrigerators, the stakes were particularly high. "People are dipping in Super Bowl," Zohar said. "They are looking for what to dip. Unfortunately they are dipping in the wrong product. But we try to change this. And we are doing okay." Continue reading... Employer Rips Into NSA Whistleblower Coming Soon: Pot Vending Machines To A Store Near You Why It's Unlikely Tech Companies Didn't Know About NSA Spying Hardest-Hit Sandy Victims Face New Nightmare Big Change In Store At Target Krugman: NSA Surveillance State 'On The Authoritarian Side' At Some Employers, Workers Can Buy More Vacation Time Krugman: NSA Surveillance State 'On The Authoritarian Side' Big Change In Store At Target Hardest-Hit Sandy Victims Face New Nightmare Cheerios Stands By Ad Featuring Mixed Race Family JARED BERNSTEIN Jobs Day: First Impressions -- High Stakes Musical Chairs What we have here is a high stakes game of musical chairs, as payrolls grow at a steady, if not-that-impressive, clip, essentially adding chairs to the game. Meanwhile, more players are coming off the sidelines, looking for places to sit. Continue reading... ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER Do You See the World As a Ladder or a Web? The ability to operate effectively in a horizontal web of relationships (a network of networks) is more important than ever. So why is it that the metric of success is still "getting to the top"? Continue reading... SEN. ROBERT MENENDEZ A Cry for Worker Fairness The tragedy at the Rana Plaza clothing factory was a sober reminder that Bangladeshi garment workers still lack basic rights and protections. My mother was a seamstress. She worked in the textile factories of northern New Jersey. I saw how hard and tiring her work was. But it was never lethal. And it shouldn't be. Continue reading... ELISSA ELLIS SANGSTER Missing in the Lean In Debate? The MBA Gender Gap While Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and her critics argue over who's to blame for the glass ceiling -- women or society -- one potential equalizer getting short shrift in the conversation is education, in particular an MBA. Continue reading... LINDA MERIC Stop the Blame Game: We Can Create an Economy That Works for All While some naysayers including politicians and television personalities want to blame working mothers for the state of our nation, it's really the state of our nation that's to blame for these issues facing working mothers. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003