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...parts per million. In 1985 political appointees at the EPA raised the acceptable level of fluoride in drinking water to 4 p.p.m., over objections from agency scientists. The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the agency, charging that the safety margin was inadequate, but in 1987 a U.S. district court ruled that the EPA administrators had the authority to set fluoride levels. EPA union representatives reopened the issue in August, calling on EPA administrator Stephen Johnson to issue a moratorium on fluoridation and to set a goal of zero fluoride in tap water. "The EPA has an ethical duty to send...
...FINED. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor; $300 million, in connection with charges of price-fixing; by the U.S. District court; in San Francisco. Samsung was charged with colluding with industry rivals from 1999 to 2002 to fix the prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, used in everything from cell phones to laptops, forcing major computer manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Apple to raise prices to compensate. The fine is the second-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history...
...Cambridge District Court rules that Purdy knowingly permitted About Hair to harbor prostitution and that he took in such earnings, he could face up to five years in state prison and $5,000 in fines for each of four separate counts, with no chance of probation or a reduced or suspended sentence for two years, as called for in Massachusetts state...
Purdy is out on bail and will face a pre-trial hearing on Nov. 11. According to the Cambridge District Court criminal docket, Purdy was acquitted last year by a jury of six on a charge of indecent assault and battery stemming from a conflict between Purdy and an employee, he said. If Purdy is convicted of any charges, the 2004 charge will not affect his sentence, according to the Middlesex district attorney’s office...
...blames on Saddam's use of chemical weapons in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. Her faith in the future stems from her faith in God to provide for Iraq. "We are asking Allah day and night to unify our country," she said. A resident of predominantly Sunni Sadiya district of Baghdad said turnout was high in the neighborhood, indicating many Sunnis had come out to vote against the constitution. But even those who voted were cynical. Thafir Aga, 38, a taxi driver in Sadiya, said he voted against the constitution because it "is dividing Iraq." "The government is only...