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...overload, once upon a time we actually worried that we weren't getting enough information. Fears of media monopoly were once rampant - what if the television station and the newspaper in a city were owned by the same family? And what if that family hated, say, corn on the cob? Everyone in that town would be denied important news concerning that noble vegetable. Recognizing the danger inherent in such a scenario, in 1975 the regulators at the Federal Communications Commission stepped in and made a decree: No one entity may own more than one news outlet in any city...
...going to keep you from eating your favorite summer staple, corn on the cob. But before you take your next buttery bite, you may want to think twice: Those perfect-looking kernels were designed specially to withstand swarms of summer bugs without sustaining so much as an unwanted nibble. The problem, according to the National Academy of Sciences, is that the very characteristics in your food that are keeping insects at bay may also be launching an unseen attack on your body - and your lawn. The NAS scientists convened in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and reviewed the risk of existing...