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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...
...pomegranates, clothing and shoes. Three trucks took the wounded away. One of the 86 told Alliance fighters he was an American. The 20-year-old, who had been wounded in the leg, said he was from Washington. He would not give his name but said he was a convert to Islam who had come to Afghanistan--after a spell at a madrasah in Pakistan--to help the Taliban build a perfect Islamic government...
Renovations on the Square location will begin in early January and are expected to be completed by the end of the month. The company also plans to convert the last two Brew Moons in the Boston area to Rock Bottom Restaurants...
Kelly says he has perfected the slug-identification-and-retrieval system but estimates that it will be several years before the slugbot is ready for market. Biggest hurdle: getting the robot to convert those captured mollusks into usable energy. While the concept of microbial fuel cells has worked in laboratory tests, applying it to slugs turns out to be a sticky proposition...