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...confiscated 45 clear plastic bags containing herb-like substances which the report described as marijuana and psilocybin, a blue purse holding “an off-white waxy substance that was in flakes and a solid yellow chunk of an unknown substance,” a pipe, a 200-gram weight and scale, a large black hunting knife, and a small box of rolling papers...
Wilson's exertions have been matched by those of his counterparts across the packaged-food industry. A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule goes into effect on Jan. 1 requiring nutrition labels to include the trans-fat content of packaged foods in which it exceeds half a gram per serving. Eager to pre-empt the requirement, manufacturers--from ABC Bakers, maker of Girl Scout Cookies, to Campbell Soup Co.--have been scrambling to come up with trans-fat- free recipes for their products...
...chart this week. The album's first single, With or Without You, has made the band's heaviest mark on Top 40 radio and is already in the Top Ten. Other tunes on The Joshua Tree (the title was inspired by a California desert town where '70s Rocker Gram Parsons died) are likely to keep it company. U2 launched a scheduled 18-month world tour in Arizona just three weeks ago, will play the U.S. through mid-May, perform in Europe most of the summer, then return to the States in September. "I guarantee you that | when U2 comes back...
...researchers have set out to look for those genes--and not just in the ocean. Venter is also sampling the air over New York City, and other scientists are looking into hot springs, digging into the ground and even testing toxic-waste sites. "You can pick up a gram of soil," says Aristides Patrinos, who oversees the Department of Energy's genome program, "and there's DNA in it. By sequencing that DNA, you can infer what's there in terms of diversity." As a rule, the more diverse a given ecosystem--the more genes present, even at the microbial...
...prosecution, however, cites the fact that Medicare reimbursed him at a rate of $90 per gram of immunoglobulin while the actual cost of treatment was between one half and two thirds of that amount, according to the Boston Globe...