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...source of food additives that come largely from Sudan via Canada and may enter the U.S. uninspected because of the North American Free Trade Agreement. This was misleading. Gum arabic is imported into the U.S. directly from Africa in raw form, and at our company we liquefy, pasteurize and convert it into a powder. According to statistics from the U.S. International Trade Commission, no gum arabic was imported from Canada between 1996 and 2000. The level of concern over the safety of gum arabic in foods should be no less and no greater than that for any other food ingredient...
...Spanish investigators try to flesh out what is still a largely circumstantial case for that connection. The probe centers on the cell?s alleged leader, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, a Syrian-born family man known to his comrades as Abu Dahdah. He lived with his Spanish wife, a Muslim convert, and their four children in a leafy middle-class neighborhood on the southern fringe of Madrid...
...seventh detainee is Moroccan and the eighth, Luis José Galán González, is a Spaniard from a wealthy family and a convert to what investigators call a particularly fanatic style of Islam. Last July he went to Indonesia to train with the group Lashkar Jihad, which investigators say is supported by and allied to al-Qaeda. When he was arrested police found pictures of him dressed as a mujahedin with a shotgun in one hand and a pistol in the other. "When we put him in jail, he said he wanted two things: a toothbrush...
...baby can enliven even the blandest of people. "They have been so formal and subdued, they created a huge gap between the average Japanese and the royal family, which drove people to stop caring," says 34-year-old Toshiaki Ozeki, a gym instructor. But Ozeki is a royal convert now. Masako's miscarriage two years ago, Naruhito's obvious anger with the way the news media treated the tragedy and Saturday's successful birth all served to make the royals seem more human, more like Ozeki and his girlfriend, who cope day in and day out with life...
...Swiss authorities are urging the country's 7.2 million residents to convert these spaces back into actual bomb shelters - complete with a 14-day supply of bottled water and canned food. And certainly, the design requirements of these structures should reassure anyone concerned about the threat of terrorism...