Word: armstrongs
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...tack, suing one of Maine's leading dairies in federal court in Boston. The suit charged that Oakhurst Dairy, the company that buys Nutting's milk, is misleading consumers by advertising a no-artificial-hormone pledge, implying that its milk is safer and healthier. "Milk is milk," says Janice Armstrong, Monsanto's director of public affairs...
...battle over the milk of Maine about free speech? Or is it about dairies using scare tactics to sell more product? "Oakhurst's marketing campaign is based more on fear than on facts," says Monsanto's Armstrong. Consumer groups say if farmers can't label their milk as coming from cows free of artificial hormones, it could set a precedent for challenging such popular labels as "MSG-free," "no artificial flavors," "free-range" and "GM-free." Maine attorney general Steven Rowe plans to ask Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts to help him fight Monsanto when the suit goes to trial...
...searing images of the Iraq war. All the emotions get played out for the camera during wartime, from the terrified child with his hands up, to the exuberant soldier swooshing down a palace banister in Tikrit. Other imponderables--feats of nature like Hurricane Isabel, feats of sport like Lance Armstrong's fifth win--are wrestled to the page too. In one photo, Texans look warily at a globe-shaped piece of debris that fell from the Columbia. All anyone could do was stare and puzzle and grieve. In 2003 the battered world crashed again and again into our lives...
...songs themselves are unremittingly grim in subject matter. Dalle just separated from her husband Tim Armstrong, lead singer of Rancid, and the lyrics (and blood-and-razor soaked album art) are full of pain...
DIED. GARNER TED ARMSTRONG, 73, silver-haired TV evangelist; of complications from pneumonia; in Tyler, Texas. The son of radio evangelist Herbert Armstrong, whose Worldwide Church of God earned more than $70 million a year by the late 1970s with its predictions of an imminent apocalypse, he became the star of the church's widely distributed radio and TV show The World Tomorrow. Allegations of his sexual misconduct later led his father to excommunicate him from the church. Yet he stayed on the air, most recently as founder of the Intercontinental Church...