Word: coli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COLUMBUS, Neb.: A "SWAT team" of government investigators is swarming on the Hudson Foods plant that produced 1.2 million pounds of E. coli contaminated frozen burgers, all called back last week in the largest ground beef recall in US history. The Team is poring over records and procedures used at the factory to try and figure out what happened. At least 15 people in Colorado have gotten sick from the burgers, though the patties were distributed nationwide...
...alas, is ex, its reign exhausted. The era of E (or e) has begun. The e Cafe joins the top-rated television series ER, the popular magazine Entertainment Weekly (widely called EW), cbs's highly praised series EZ Streets, the irreverent E! Entertainment Television, the resurgent E. coli bacteria and the favored form of communication of the cognoscenti, E-mail, plus its multifarious electronic spin-offs, e-cash, e-commerce, et al. Can the e.e. cummings revival...
Policies were constantly formulated in terms of tots. E. coli bacteria doesn't just kill people, it kills "children." The problem with pollution is that it poisons "playgrounds." The reason to fight crime is so that "children's lives are not shattered by violence." Look at President Clinton's initiatives: literacy for all eight-year-olds, extra money for child care, adoption tax credits, flex time and family leave. Every voter was a child once, but it's possible that voters without children might have felt a bit lonely at the family table in Chicago...
...fellow at Harvard, Ptashne rose to fame after isolating the repressor of lambda phage virus. The lambda virus is able to remain dormant in E. coli bacteria because its repressor binds to the viral DNA, preventing the expression of the genes necessary for viral replication...
...Republican initiatives which was defeated was an attempt to bar FDA meat inspectors from scientifically inspecting meat for E. Coli and other bacteria, viruses and vermin. Until now, FDA inspectors were only permitted to inspect meat visually. Each year, thousands of people die from eating contaminated meat, and many more become ill. Yet the Republicans sided with the meat industry, which see the new regulations only as a serious meat to profits...