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Thursday, one day after the Bush administration announced plans to phase out salmonella testing for ground beef bound for school lunch programs, the administration backtracked in the face of rising consumer ire. Officials now insist they will keep the vigilant - or excessive, according to the beef industry - screening processes implemented in the final year of the Clinton administration. And while consumer groups chalked up this victory, they are well aware of new battles on the horizon, including the looming possibility of irradiating truckloads of meat rather than inspecting every piece...
...ticket prices on non-peak travel. Most plans focus on the consumer, but a few have made their way into the airlines' realm as well: Mineta is also said to be considering bonuses for airlines that use runways and gates at less busy times, and likewise penalizing those that insist on landing, on, say, Friday at 6 p.m at New York's LaGuardia Airport...
...give him a 20." As if that didn't clarify matters, the 20-year-old Latvian model addressed the whispers of Martin's homosexuality more directly: "It's like a joke. I wish every man were so gay." Despite the kind words, Martin's reps insist the two are "just friends...
...four-month-old daughter Sascha and chatted about his annual head-clearing cross-country drives. His stand-up material consisted of diatribes against people who ask other people to say hello for them; Jared, the formerly obese Subway-sandwich dieter; and the folks at Pizza Hut, who insist on hiding cheese in every possible crevice of their product. It was not a radical departure from his previous work. Seinfeld did break from routine a bit in displaying a previously unseen blue streak, as "ass" and "mofo" exploded from his mouth with Martin Lawrence-esque ease. Kids really do change...
...urging analysts to be "intellectually honest and independent." My favorite criticism comes from the stock jocks on CNBC--the very same folks who made stars of bulls like Blodget and Meeker by putting them on the air day after day while the bubble was still bloating. These watchdogs now insist that analysts answer for their miscalls. O.K., but who's insisting that the TV folk answer for airing this stuff ad nauseam and without balance? The print world isn't blameless either. Nobody wanted to hear that Net stocks were incendiary. Audiences would have tuned...