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...initial assessment - which it has not rescinded - that "an adequate margin of safety exists for BPA at current levels of exposure from food-contact uses, for infants and adults" was based on data available at the time. Back in April, for example, the National Toxicology Program, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), released a preliminary report expressing "some concern" that according to studies done in animals, BPA could have neural and behavioral effects on fetuses, infants and children at current levels of exposure. Recent surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had suggested...
...Crimson administered its questionnaire to a random sample of 1,000 undergraduates using the iCommons polling interface. Harvard FAS ID’s were used as logins to prevent repeat voting and responses from students not included in the survey sample. The poll carried a margin of error of 3.9 percent...
...Among Ohio's white males, meanwhile, Obama appears to be falling faster: they now favor McCain by a 14-point margin, 56% to 42%. Just a week earlier, Obama was 10 points behind with this group. Joe Wurzelbacher (a.k.a. Joe the Plumber), who has come to represent something of a mascot or rallying cry for the McCain campaign, hails from a suburb of Toledo, Ohio...
...Nevada, by contrast, Obama has seen his overall lead grow from a 4-point margin in late August to a 7-point margin in the latest TIME/CNN poll. Most of that growth, the data show, comes from independents, white men and voters making less than $50,000 a year. McCain's overall support in the state - 45% - is only 1 point higher than it was two months...
...polls were conducted over the phone Oct. 23-28. In Arizona, 807 likely voters were surveyed; in Nevada, 684; in North Carolina, 667; in Ohio, 779; and in Pennsylvania, 768. Arizona, Ohio and Pennsylvania had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, while Nevada and North Carolina had a margin of error of 4 percentage points...