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...multiple efforts on the part of Coke to exonerate itself with its own sponsored studies. One of these, conducted by the Central Science Laboratory, a respected food-safety lab, showed Coke’s bottled drinks conformed to international safety norms vis-à-vis pesticides. Another, conducted by Cal Safety Compliance Commission, one of the largest compliance investigators in the U.S., found no evidence of labor violations at Coke’s plants in Columbia. Granted, both of these studies were paid for by Coca-Cola (and the Cal Safety study was apparently altered in some small...
...roamed the league’s stadiums that the Ivies have had a significant chance of taking home the hardware. The Payton Award, which was established in 1987, boasts several future NFL players as recipients including Steve McNair, Brian Westbrook, Brian Finneran, Jamie Martin, John Friesz, and Dave Meggett. Cal Poly defensive end Chris Gocong claimed the Buck Buchanan Award as I-AA’s best defensive player, after a season in which he recorded 19 sacks and 79 tackles. Princeton defensive back Jay McCareins finished sixth in the voting, and Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie, who missed part...
...observed when it was recently granted exclusive access to operations of the Air Force's 15th Reconnaissance Squadron, which commands 25 Predators from Nellis. It was 10:30 p.m. in Nevada, 9:30 a.m. in Iraq, and after two hours of watching insurgents fire a pickup-truck-mounted .50-cal. machine gun at U.S. troops in western Iraq, Rogers and the sensor operator with whom he works were given the command to shoot the truck. Both developed a case of what Rogers calls the "trembles"--the nervousness of wanting to kill the enemy but injure no one else, combined with...
...sparked by a lecture Nye gave 10 years ago on the subject of turning kids on to math and science. Now the show's creators, husband and wife Nick Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, have enlisted their hero to guest-star Dec. 16 as an engineering professor from the fictional Cal Sci University. As the closest thing scientists have to a pop-culture ambassador, Nye has one script note to suggest: "More romance," he says. "Smart men get women--at least that's what I hear...
...could not seal the victory after the top-ranked player scored a takedown in the final 10 seconds. For Preston, the loss ended his 10-bout winning streak to start the season. After losing an 8-5 decision to No. 2 seed Darrell Vasquez of Cal Poly, Preston clinched fifth place by default...