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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...
...front of me in the press box just told me about Conner Kempe's near fatal kit-board accident off the coast of Jupiter...
...October approached with no absentee ballot, or a response of any kind, I became slightly paranoid, so I called the Manhattan Borough Board of Elections. The woman on the other end of the line - who was juggling multiple calls - informed me that while I was a registered voter, they had not yet received my absentee application - and that I should fax another one and mail it as well, just to make sure. I did as told, making it a nightly ritual for a week to call before bedtime to see if they had received my fax. I never got through...
...From our standpoint the issue is funding," explains Valerie Vazquez-Rivera, director of communications for the New York City Board of Elections. "If we were properly funded we would have more staff members to work with the increase in voter registration as well as absentee ballots...
...receive Official Ballot Card. If this applies to you, mark choices on Official Sample Ballot pages." Yet Sandy Mansson of Stockholm, Sweden, found it odd. "It was very strange, it was just not what you normally do," says Mansson. Paul Drugan, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Board of Elections, defends the practice. "Our first priority is overseas and military voters, so we send them out first. For this election that was before actual ballots were printed," he says. "Our instructions were clear...