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...Teflon chemicals [in pots and pans] on less evidence than we have for BPA," says Woodruff, "because there was concern that people were chronically exposed to a chemical linked to some evidence of potential human harm." Woodruff says the estimated range of exposure to BPA for formula-fed infants is within the range of doses that have led to adverse effects in animal studies...
...Four years later, the Institute of Politics Youth Survey indicates that young voters’ distaste for the status quo has intensified, fed by growing concern about the economy...
...that wouldn't be the end of it. In November 2002, during his first stint on the Fed - as a mere member of the board, not the chairman - Bernanke gave a now somewhat infamous speech about what central banks could do to fend off deflation even after short-term interest rates hit zero. The Fed could target longer-term interest rates, he argued. It could buy private securities, not just Treasuries. It could, figuratively speaking, drop money out of helicopters...
...throwing money at the economy's problems is not without risk, and it will be interesting to see whether the Fed is able to react quickly enough in the other direction when the economy finally takes a turn for the better, and avert the inflationary spiral that Bernanke's critics have been warning about all along...
...Should New Zealanders decide to discard their 58-year-old Prime Minister, they will do so largely without relish. Aiming to gauge the nation's mood by traveling the country to speak to men and women from all walks of life, TIME found that while many are fed up with her government, nearly all concede a grudging respect for Clark. "She hasn't dropped a pass," says Stuart Wright, a sheep and potato farmer in Sheffield, west of Christchurch. Like Wright, Ken Arthur, a winegrower in Blenheim at the top of the South Island, wants Labour ousted. But he respects...