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...Today the fare is $2, and New York, which has the lowest crime rate of any large U.S. city, is the center of another national trauma: the financial crisis. But the subways run so efficiently, and their lurid reputation has retreated so far, that few people complain about anything except the next fare increase. A remake of Pelham One Two Three can duplicate the 1974 film's thriller ingredients: the criminal mastermind, the clock ticking toward certain doom, the runaway train, the ordinary man tapped for a suicidal mission. It just can't locate those conventions in a milieu with...
...Here in the U.S., the Phase 6 declaration isn't going to change what we do day to day," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The Department of Health and Human Services has allocated $1 billion to the development, testing and production of an H1N1 vaccine, and five different companies, including GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis, currently have the seed virus from CDC that will form the core of the immunization. But a vaccine won't be ready until September at the earliest, and even then, it won't be clear...
...center of the legislation is an effort to transform a slow and reactive government apparatus into a preventive food-safety system. Every processor or importer would have to implement plans to identify biological and chemical hazards in its products, like the salmonella discovered at a Georgia peanut plant linked to a national outbreak of the infection in 2008. Firms would be required to maintain strategies and procedures to prevent or stop such dangers. The FDA would set minimum requirements for plans and audit them, a government tool that may have headed off the peanut-borne bacteria that resulted...
...Manufacturers Association now support the new oversight, which reflects corporate anxiety over the volatile current system and a recognition that they need a government imprimatur to establish credibility with consumers. Peanut-butter manufacturers, after all, saw sales decline 13% in the wake of the salmonella outbreak, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The spinach industry lost more than $350 million after a wave of E. coli infections linked to California growers was implicated in five deaths. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...that worked so well for his presidential campaign. Last weekend the Organizing for America operation that was spun off from his campaign organization held health-care-reform house parties around the country. On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee launched a new website that it calls the Health Care Action Center. It has tools to help supporters to organize and to share their personal health-care stories, as well as to write letters to editors and contact congressional representatives...