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...whether Indonesians were politically mature enough to elect their leaders directly. U.S. Rogue Mail Postal inspectors investigating the anthrax mailings linked to five deaths last fall inched closer to a solution to the mystery. They found a mailbox in Princeton, New Jersey that tested positive for traces of the bacteria. U.S. Postal Service spokesman Dan Mihalko said the box had been sent to an army facility in Maryland for analysis, as field testing was fallible. The suspect mailbox was discovered during an investigation of hundreds of boxes from which mail is sent to a sorting office in Trenton, New Jersey...
...suppliers can't make special claims that their products are healthier or safer than conventionally grown food. Trace amounts of pesticides may well be found in organic foods because the chemicals are ubiquitous. And organic produce, just like standard produce, can be vulnerable to pathogens such as E. coli bacteria from manure or tainted water supplies...
...problem of nonnative species. The measure Norton invoked last week, the Lacey Act, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to identify "injurious wildlife." The problem is, when you're looking for those things, it's hard to know where to begin. There are 200,000 species of organisms (excluding bacteria and protozoa) in the U.S., and at least 7,000 of them were introduced artificially. The coyote didn't start here, nor did the hog, the sparrow, the starling, the rat or the pigeon. And though some alien species--such as horses, cattle and sheep--are important parts...
...importance of these microbes goes much further. While some extremophiles are bacteria, some are so different from any other single-celled organism that scientists have created a new biological kingdom, called Archaea (from archaic), to accommodate them. As the name suggests, Archaea may be similar to the very first organisms that populated the earth billions of years ago. The implication: life on our planet may first have arisen, not in a warm tidal pool as Darwin and others theorized, but under conditions of sulfurous, searing heat...
...Bristol England followed 11,000 kids for more than three years. Researchers found that young children who were bathed or washed more than twice a day were more likely to have severe eczema or asthma, suggesting that too much cleanliness inhibits a child's natural immune responses to everyday bacteria. --By Lisa McLaughlin