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The public-advocacy group that helped maneuver the trans-fats ban in New York City restaurants and pushed national chains to divulge fat and calorie content on their menus is agitating for more change. The Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is now calling for easy...
This round of trade negotiations was supposed to be about "development," which made it ironic that the proximate cause of the failure was the claim by developing nations that not enough was being done to protect their farmers, like the Indian pictured above, from a surge of rich-world imports...
Breakdowns are to be expected in any negotiations, and Zimbabwe's regime had shown little interest in ceding power as it unleashed a wave of violence in the wake of the March 29 poll. The key question now is whether Mugabe is seriously pursuing an agreement with the opposition or...
At the same time, the plane will likely drop in altitude quite dramatically. But this sensation is actually good news, says Todd Curtis, an engineer and former airline safety analyst at Boeing. It usually means that the pilots are trying to get the plane low enough so that the outside...
An all-out Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. could entail an intercontinental blitzkrieg: thousands of missiles launched from enemy territory, letting loose tens of thousands of deadly warheads surrounded by a nebula of hurtling decoys and debris. In half an hour, this lethal ''threat cloud'' would be over the...