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...Dipping raw oysters in Louisiana hot sauce may be frowned upon in fancy French restaurants, but it could keep an aficionado out of the hospital. In laboratory tests, the spicy flavoring killed four kinds of bacteria that can contaminate shellfish and that cause ailments ranging from mild diarrhea to potentially fatal blood poisoning...
...NAFTA's fate next month will probably turn on 20 votes among Congressmen from Florida and Louisiana, who insist that sugar and citrus producers in their districts should continue to be protected from free-market competition, and that U.S. consumers should be protected from buying less-expensive Mexican imports. The treaty provides for a 15-year adjustment period on sugar imports, but it also allows the Mexicans to export sugar freely after seven years if that nation has a surplus. Sugar-state lawmakers are worried that the Mexicans will substitute corn syrup and other sweeteners for domestic use and divert...
...being highly flexible on details, he is adamant on some basic principles. Several are echoed by the most thorough alternative plans, including one proposed last week by 22 Republican Senators and nearly identical bills likely to be introduced this week by two Democrats, Tennessee Representative Jim Cooper and Louisiana Senator John Breaux. Some amalgam of these proposals could become the principal bipartisan alternative to Clinton's plan...
Cohen meets some interesting people on his "cross-country quest for a generation." He brings the reader along as he visits with Dirk, a New York artist and dope dealer; Dexter, a Louisiana politician who is in it for the money; and David, a Korean-American who works in his parents grocery store in South Central Los Angeles. It's wonderful simply to have vicarious conversations with these people, to hear about their lives and dreams and work and loves and fears...
...acre site in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, the EPA cited 160 responsible parties. At the Petro Processors sites near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where 62 acres of land are saturated with liquid petrochemical wastes, cleanup is expected to last well into the 22nd century, in part because of endless lawsuits filed by and against the large corporations -- including U.S. Steel, Dow Chemical, Exxon Corp. and Allied Chemical -- charged with polluting. Bryant Conway, an attorney who represents a landowner with property near the Petro Processors sites, says the companies he deals with use lawyers to stall the cleanup process by legal means. "None...