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...shortcomings listed were legion. Despite a marked uptick in imported food, the amount actually inspected by the FDA has fallen precipitously, said Rep. Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat and chair of the oversight and investigations subcommittee. "While FDA inspects less than one percent of all imported foods, only a small fraction of that is actually tested for contaminants," said Stupak. Furthermore, food that is suspected of contamination is typically tested by private labs that the FDA has no jurisdiction over and which importers have learned to manipulate. There are also not enough staff members to give shipments more than...
...either by coincidence or convergence, Senator Clinton's story bears a remarkable similarity to one frequently told by Al Gore. In Gore's tale - the version below is from a September 8, 1999 address to the American Legion (full disclosure: neither of us remembers working on the speech, but we remember the story] - there was no triumphant Albright returning to her homeland, just a man from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, visiting his Senator...
...rules go into effect as planned on July 15, the webcasters claim, there will no longer be niche streams like "Screamin' and Hollerin,'" "Ninja Tunes" or "The Cole Porter Songbook"--just three of the 320 channels available to listeners of AccuRadio, which is itself one of a legion of large, small, and miniscule providers of free streaming music. Supporters of the increase want to see struggling artists receive the money they say they deserve, and argue that the rules that were set up for a fledgling industry five years ago are no longer appropriate in an era when at least...
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz amassed a legion of enemies as the militant muse behind the Iraq invasion. They pursued him as he migrated from the Pentagon to the World Bank, promising a war on poverty and corruption. So evidence that he arranged his girlfriend's $60,000 raise invited critics to pounce: How can we fight cronyism abroad if we practice it at home? Some opponents suggested that whatever the facts of the case, the very fact of the scandal made it impossible for him to remain effective...
...held up approval of a $120-billion-plus supplemental war bill. "The bottom line is this: Congress's failure to fund our troops will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines," Bush told an American Legion audience in suburban Virginia. The next day, his Pentagon did it all by itself, without any help from anyone of either party on Capitol Hill...