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Boar’s Head Deli Meat Recalled Amid Deadly Listeria Outbreak

“Listeria monocytogenes, the bacteria responsible for listeriosis, is ubiquitous in the environment and can thrive in various conditions, including refrigerated temperatures,” says Darin Detwiler, an associate professor at Northeastern University and a former FDA and USDA food safety advisor.
Christian Science Monitor

Teen summer jobs are back. What’s behind the return of a rite of passage?

“Employers suddenly rediscovered teenagers as an important source of labor in the post-COVID economy, when adults realized they didn’t want to come back,” says Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate professor at Northeastern University, who has been surveying Boston’s summer employment program for nearly a decade.
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Cell phones, clothes … rent? Inflation pushes teens into the workforce

Alicia Sasser Modestino, a professor of economics and public policy at Northeastern University, says more than half of teens work to contribute to household expenses such as rent, utilities and groceries or to cover their own expenses such as a cellphone, clothing and shoes.
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Is the media coverage of President Biden’s age over the top? Here’s one expert’s take.

“I do think that the June 27 debate changed a lot,” Northeastern University Journalism Prof. Dan Kennedy told WBZ-TV on Sunday’s Keller @ Large. 
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Philip Gilreath, an English professor at Northeastern University, said he sees Biden stepping down as an opportunity to energize the Democratic Party in a way that he believes has been missing this election cycle. He said he is feeling both excited and nervous about November’s contest.
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How will delegates and superdelegates at the DNC handle Biden dropping out?

William Mayer, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Factcheck.org that the Democratic convention delegate rules allow for pledged delegates to vote for a new candidate. “You are kind of encouraged to vote for the candidates for whom you were elected – but ‘in all good conscience’ you could vote for someone else,” Mayer said.
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After Biden drops out and endorses Harris, what to know about campaign funds, primaries

William Mayer, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Factcheck.org that the Democratic convention delegate rules allow for pledged delegates to vote for a new candidate. “You are kind of encouraged to vote for the candidates for whom you were elected – but ‘in all good conscience’ you could vote for someone else,” Mayer said.
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Is Biden’s Reelection Bid Rapidly Approaching its End?

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, notes that “time is of the essence for Democrats” and that if Biden is going to drop out, “the sooner he does that, the better.”
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Chaos on social media platforms after Trump shooting is a mess of their own making

“Meta decided that it can’t profitably deliver civic content,” said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University and the co-director of Cybersecurity for Democracy, a research group focused on digital misinformation.
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RNC Viewership Is Plummeting

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told USA Today that viewership of conventions has declined because they have morphed into something more scripted compared to when they were not broadcast on television.
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LexisNexis launches commercial version of AI research tool

Therefore, the idea behind Nexis+AI — using an array of licensed data to create a generative AI tool for a broad audience — is not strictly new, said Michael Bennett, AI law and policy adviser at Northeastern University.
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Is crime down in Boston? Charts show detailed trends and breakdowns.

As for why this is happening, James Alan Fox, a criminology and public policy professor at Northeastern University, pointed to some possible factors: the city’s relatively low gun ownership rate, aging population, and robust hospital network capable of treating gunshot victims effectively.