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...hydrocarbon windfall that fueled the Russian state's recent revival appears unable to offer a solution to the crisis. Russian foreign-currency reserves that stood at almost $600 billion last August have shrunk to $485 billion as the state has been forced to spend to bail out state-run banks and prevent abrupt devaluation of the weakening ruble. There is no telling if the policy has worked, though, and there's worse to come: major state-run corporations such as Gazprom and Rosneft, as well as Russia's regional governments, have accumulated debts amounting to some $448 billion that...
That was the subject of an Oct. 31 daylong meeting of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Science Board. Earlier last week a panel commissioned by the Science Board released its review of the FDA's safety report, which concluded in August that current levels of BPA exposure posed no real health risk. The Science Board convened Friday to discuss the panel's findings - a highly critical 17-page review that deemed the FDA's conclusions flawed - and to hear comments from the public about whether the compound should be banned from food and beverage containers. The board will...
...renewed uproar over plastic? Since the FDA completed its original analysis in August, additional data on the potential health effects of BPA have emerged, linking high levels of BPA exposure to increased risk of heart disease and diabetes and even a decreased sensitivity to chemotherapy in cancer patients. The compound is also linked to developmental and brain effects in infants; BPA is known to mimic the hormone estrogen in the body, which can cause changes in developing fetuses and infants. "There is enough evidence today for the FDA to take the precaution and to certainly get BPA out of infant...
...August, just before Johnston was scheduled to travel to the Republican National Convention, he received word while shooting “Sportsmen for McCain” ads in Tennessee that his father had gone into cardiac arrest...
Since I turned 18 more than 10 years ago, I have voted in every presidential election. And when I moved from New York to Hong Kong at the end of August, I just assumed that I would have no problem continuing to do so. As I mailed off my absentee ballot request form in early September. I figured the absentee voting process was going to be neat and easy. Then I waited. And waited. And waited...