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...CSPI's findings. Klein and her team sought the most recent routine reports from 30 restaurants in each of 20 cities the CSPI selected across the U.S., analyzing 539 reports in total. They revealed the gamut of infractions, from mold growing in ice machines (in a restaurant in Atlanta) to live cockroaches skittering across kitchen cutting boards (in Pittsburgh, Pa.). The reports cited violations in restaurants of every caliber: though the data does not detail which specific restaurants committed which offenses, the aggregated inspections represent popular national fast-food chains as well as posh $90-a-head eateries...
...unclear whether cities with more violations simply had dirtier kitchens or more dogged restaurant inspectors. New York City, Milwaukee, Austin and Atlanta had the better inspector-to-restaurant ratios, where inspectors covered fewer than 200 restaurants each. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago had the highest ratios, with each inspector responsible for evaluating 400 to 500 restaurants. In some cities, however, inspectors appeared to work overtime: Colorado Springs, which employs just eight food inspectors for about 2,000 restaurants, reported the third highest number of violations in the study, at 46; most cited unclean food surfaces, as well as food being inadequately...
...moment, says Klein, this kind of health-inspection information isn't very easily accessible in all locales. In many cities, such as New York City, Chicago and Denver, restaurant-inspection reports are available online. In others, like San Francisco and Atlanta, restaurants keep their reports on-site and give them to the customer upon request. But some cities, including Pittsburgh and Washington, share inspection results only through Freedom of Information Act requests - which is not very useful for the consumer unless he's planning dining reservations months in advance...
...eight teams with the highest scores compete in the team finals. The U.S. women are the defending world champions, and are expected to battle with China and defending Olympic team champs Romania for the coveted team gold medal, which the Americans last won in the 1996 Atlanta Games with the Magnificent Seven. But without Peszek, all four of the girls' scores had to count, and thus there was no room for error. "It was a big shock to us," says Shawn Johnson, who nevertheless laid down four solid routines and now leads the point count for the all-around title...
...Atlanta HIV Rate Revisited The Centers for Disease Control has been undercounting the number of new HIV cases in the U.S. Revised figures put the number of newly infected Americans at 55,000 to 58,500 per year instead of 40,000. The overall rate has been stable since the 1990s but is still alarmingly high among gay men and African Americans...