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...passing the medical buck to staff members isn't going over well, either. Norma Perez, 30, picketing with her three kids outside a Ralphs in North Hollywood, says that under the chain's proposed policy, she and her husband would incur an additional $500 or so a month in medical costs--jeopardizing mortgage payments on their house outside Los Angeles or putting the kids' health at risk. "California is already down, and imagine if we all go apply for medical welfare," says the cashier. The supermarkets dispute such dire predictions. As of last week, the two sides were aisles apart...
Worries about the perils of cloning are heading from the fire to the frying pan. After studying the dangers of allowing food products derived from clones and their offspring into the U.S. food chain, the FDA has issued a preliminary report declaring them just as safe to eat as those from any other animal. The current moratorium against selling food from clones will remain in effect for now, but the national debate may be just heating...
...lingering over because in the here and now--early fall in his East Village apartment in New York City--Adams is doing a fair impression of an 11-year-old brat. We are supposed to be talking about his new album, Rock N Roll, but Adams has decided to chain-smoke and open his mail. "Why does my mom keep sending me QVC stuff?" he mumbles. "Oh. A book light. F___, yeah...
...instant preview of their newly christened sneaker, thanks to the site’s Java-intensive set-up. Nike’s tech-savvy also means, however, that would-be political protesters will be thwarted in their attempts to make a statement with their footwear. A recent chain email doing the rounds suggested that the Nike computers resolutely refused requests of “sweatshop,” citing the label as “inappropriate slang.” Ethical quandaries aside, it’s clear these puppies are going to prove irresistible for large swathes of trendoid...
...cries one election worker at the check-in table, stumbling over the plastic chain as she rushes at a fellow staffer who has just entered. “The missing link...