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...issue that is now on the front burner dates back to 1992, when the FDA decided that biotech ingredients did not materially alter food and therefore did not require labeling. Nor, the agency declared, was premarket safety testing required, because biotech additives were presumed to be benign. Last March the Center for Food Safety and 53 other groups, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, filed a petition to force the FDA to change its policy...
...three-tray CD player, a tuner, a set of speakers that look cool until you put on the odd, undersized protection screens, and the thing that makes it worth talking about, a rewritable CD burner. (It doesn't have a tape player, which I suppose at this point is considered as archaic as records, but there is an auxiliary input if you have a tape player component lying around). You can do high-speed copying; not only straight CD-to-CD burns but also compilations of songs from three CDs. For example, you could take the three albums John Lennon...
Also from Sony was a radical new addition to its Mavica line of digital cameras. The Mavica MVC-CD1000 ($1,300, available in August) comes with a built-in CD-ROM burner, so when you snap a picture, you don't have to download it to your PC. Instead, the camera writes the image straight to a disc. No fuss, no muss...
...began the band with Warren a few years ago, is just amazed to be where they are now. “We never thought we’d get this far,” he says. “Winning at this point is kind of on the back burner.” What’s most important to him is the arrival of his family from Alabama to see him play. “It feels good to have your parents be proud,” he says...
...finds random facts about the history of sex, which are not useless because they involve sex. Allyn explains the evolution of the bra-burner myth, explains the history of nudist colonies in the United States, and gives a detailed account of group marriages, a popular trend of the late '70s. He explores the story behind Hugh Heffner's rise and fall, what the acronym PRIDE actually signifies, and describes what Deep Throat, perhaps the most recognized porn-flick title, really involved. These random facts are all the more interesting when Allyn writes about sex in college. Among his many stories...