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...kids were able to eat five peanuts a day with no reaction; at the end of year, the majority of them could safely eat 32 peanuts, which meant they no longer needed to read food labels for possible nut contamination. Clark has just embarked on a three-year, $1.5 million controlled trial to test the same treatment in 104 children with peanut allergies. Similar studies are also under way at Duke University and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, among other places...
...trying to change the E.U.'s zero-tolerance policy. The region plans to adopt a common standard that would specify testing methods and establish thresholds for all food-related allergens. For instance, when it comes to gluten, the general consensus is that any concentration below 20 parts per million is too small to have a harmful effect, so new regulations would not require manufacturers to label foods that contain less than that cutoff...
...Sony Pictures Classics. A Prophet, Jacques Audiard's French prison drama, opened to a decent $170,000 in nine theaters in New York and Los Angeles, while Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon made $168,000 in its ninth week of limited release. That movie has now passed $1.5 million in North America - not bad for a powerful but super-austere epic about collective madness in a German village on the eve of World War I. (See the 2010 Oscar predictions...
...Shutter Island, $22.2 million; $75.1 million, second week 2. Cop Out, $18.6 million, first weekend 3. The Crazies, $16.5 million, first weekend 4. Avatar, $14 million; $706.9 million, 11th week 5. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, $9.8 million; $71.2 million, third week 6. Valentine's Day, $9.5 million; $100.4 million, third week 7. Dear John, $5 million; $72.6 million, fourth week 8. The Wolfman, $4.1 million; $57.2 million, third week 9. Tooth Fairy, $3.5 million; $53.9 million, sixth week 10. Crazy Heart, $2.5 million; $25.1 million, 11th week...
...this bruised and shaken city took its first nervous steps toward reclaiming normality. While pockets of this country of 16 million lie in ruins - the country's President, Michelle Bachelet, declared several sections of central Chile "zones of catastrophe" - Santiago has had few injuries or deaths. But although the physical damage is minimal, there's a sense of unease that lingers below the city's shining surface. The wedding ceremony went ahead as scheduled at Catedral Metropolitana, but the congregation was, a participant guessed, perhaps one-fifth the number of those originally invited; the rest preferred to stay home. Meanwhile...