TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: More than 30 000 brain scientists are in Washington  D.C.  this week attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting. One of the hot topics this year is mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia and autism.  NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton  has just come from the meeting to talk about some of what  he 's been seeing and hearing. Hi  John. Thanks for coming.
 JON HAMILTON   BYLINE: Hi.
 HAMILTON : Twenty years ago  I'd say it didn't contribute much  but things are really changing. And I was really surprised. I was going through the abstracts to this year's meeting  and there were nearly a thousand papers that mentioned depression. There were 500 that mentioned schizophrenia or autism. And just this morning  there was this study on how - looking at the brain tissue of people with obsessive compulsive disorder and how it's different.
MARTIN: That's NPR's science correspondent Jon Hamilton. Jon  thanks so much.

SOLUTION: Jon Hamilton

PROBLEM: Better to avoid romaine lettuce for now  said  Jean Halloran   director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union  the nonprofit policy arm of Consumer Reports.
â(The CDC and FDA are) being very conservative and cautious about this  but for consumers itâs a very simple thing to do to buy another kind of leafy green until more is known about the risk â  Halloran  said.
Itâs unusual for Consumer Reports to issue a food warning when the CDC and FDA havenât issued a recall   Halloran  said. But given the size of the outbreak and the severity of the risk  which is worse for elderly people and children  the magazine felt it was the right decision   she  said.
âThis one really got our attention â  Halloran  said.

SOLUTION: Jean Halloran

PROBLEM: Pope Francis  called for people around the world to âembraceâ migrants and refugees in  his  annual World Day for Peace address.
 Francis  reiterated his advocacy for âall those fleeing from war and hunger  or forced by discrimination and persecution  poverty and environmental degradation to leave their homelands.â
âPlease  letâs not extinguish the hope in their hearts  letâs not suffocate their expectations of peace â  Francis  said during  his  address in the Vatican  where 40 000 adherents turned out for the event.
 Francis  called on political  educational  and religious institutions alike to âmake the effort to assure refugees and migrants  to everyone  a peaceful future.â
 Francis  also addressed what  he  described as a rise of anti-immigration rhetoric globally  suggesting that people who âfoment fear of migrants instead of building peace â possibly to achieve political ends  âare sowing violence  racial discrimination and xenophobia.â
 Francis â New Yearâs remarks drew heavily from a full statement on the subject of migration released by the Vatican in November.
On Jan. 8   Francis  will deliver another annual address to the Vatican diplomatic service  according to Catholic news site Crux  which is expected to be considered  his  most significant foreign policy statement of the year.
 Francis  has been an outspoken advocate for migrants around the world  traveling to Myanmar and Bangladesh in late 2017 and speaking with a group of Muslim Rohingya refugees who were displaced by violence.
In remarks delivered Christmas Eve   he  likened the plight of migrants to the biblical journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem  expressing  his  hope that no person would feel as though âthere is no room for them on this Earth.â

SOLUTION:
Pope Francis