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Collecting a team-high seven rebounds and eight points, the 6’10”, 285-lb Butts gave his defenders fits in the paint, as both Casey—who appeared worn down and missed eight of his 13 field goal attempts—and sophomore center Keith Wright had trouble dealing with...
...Since August, he's had to deal with "death panels," the "cornhusker kickback" and daily proclamations of a "government takeover" of health care. He has watched Obama's approval rating fall from the high 60s to the high 40s, while opposition to Democratic health care reforms have inched above 50% in many polls. Recently, he's even had Republican leaders declare that Democratic hopes for the November elections will collapse if health care reform becomes law. "Do you really think the Republicans are out there trying to save Democrats from themselves?" he asks. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...health and consumer groups that's based on the colors of a traffic light. Already fixtures in many British supermarkets, the labels use red, yellow and green circles to indicate how healthy products are in four categories: fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt. If a box of cookies is high in sugar, for instance, it'll get a red light. Food and drink companies oppose this approach and prefer to maintain the status quo - requiring only the calorie content to be displayed on the package front, with nutritional information listed on the back. The European Parliament is expected to vote...
...food labels, echoes that sentiment. "There is evidence that consumer pressure generated through the traffic-light scheme can lead to product reformulation by retailers," she says. "One major retailer told me how their least healthy sandwich range was phased out when labeling was introduced, as people stopped buying the high-fat and -salt options." (See "Cutting Salt Can Have Big Health Benefits...
...January, he tried to go underground but was arrested by Guatemalan police backed by U.S. officials as well the U.N.'s Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, or CICIG. Created in 2007, CICIG (separate from Portillo's proposed 2003 U.N.-backed anti-crime commission, which was aborted when the Guatemalan high court at the time ruled it unconstitutional) is one of the only non-governmental agencies in the world that is allowed to do autonomous criminal investigations in a sovereign country...