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...Unfortunately, according to a new survey by the Food and Drug Administration, all that caution may be for naught. Despite strict labeling laws designed to protect people like my coworker from any unpleasant surprises in their food, the FDA found that as many as 25 percent of manufacturers don't accurately list ingredients in foods like cookies, candy bars and other snacks. The omitted foods include oft-cited allergens like raw nuts and eggs, and the lapse, FDA officials fear, could result in myriad, avoidable allergic reactions - even death...
...turns out all that paranoia may have been for naught: According to two studies released this week, there does not appear to be any direct causative link between cell phone use and the development of brain tumors - no matter how extensive the phone use may be. "We found that regardless of how frequently the phones were used per month or how many years the phones were used, there wasn't any relationship with the development of brain cancer," Joshua Muscat, chief author of the study, said Wednesday. The first report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...used to pay $20 a choice of $50 or nothing. This highlights the practical danger in raising the term bill fee--that it might not bring in more money if students refuse to pay, in which case the whole exercise of ignoring student votes will have been for naught...
...British series was the brainchild of Russell T. Davies, who based it on the lives of his friends in gritty Manchester. (The title comes from the saying "There's naught so queer as folk"--there's nothing as strange as people.) Davies took heat from conservatives and from gays, who called it defamatory and unrealistic. "It's realistic for men who live like that," he argues. "It's not realistic for everyone." Cowen calls such criticism "internalized homophobia...
...still aggressive offensively. Freshman forward Kate McDavitt created a solid scoring chance 10 minutes into the second half by maneuvering around the circle, and passing off to Nagle. Three Crimson players had a chance at the rebound after Nagle's shot was stopped, but the opportunity went for naught...