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...European Parliament aren't quite so sure. Renate Sommer, a parliamentarian from Germany's Christian Democratic Union party, favors limiting front-of-package labeling to calorie content and allowing food companies to decide how much nutritional information to list on the back. "It would be wrong to overload consumers. Otherwise you would need a calculator to work out your diet," she says. "The more you label, the less people read. The U.S. has more and more food labeling, but obesity rates keep rising. We should learn from their mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Europe Green-Light New Food Labels? | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...Clinton, the word overloaded is itself a reminder of where things began to go wrong. Last March, she had the honor of starting Obama's charm offensive by presenting her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, with a little red button. It was supposed to have the Russian word for reset on it and was meant as a harmless bit of fun. But thanks to a spelling mistake somewhere in the State Department (presumably the Gimmicks Directorate), Lavrov had to explain that the button actually said overload. It caused some awkward laughter. "We won't let you do that to us," Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.-Russia Relations: In Need of a New Reset | 3/16/2010 | See Source »

Score: + 1,000,000,000 Mather love points, -3 occasional e-mail overload on Mather-Open...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market Reviews: Mather House | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...clip was posted Sept. 8, 2006, and was removed from the site nearly two months later in direct response to a government request. But prosecutors argued that individual viewers had sent written complaints about the video for weeks before it was taken down. (See a cartoon about Google overload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy's Google Verdict Starts Debate on Web Freedom | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...lunch, the tables were buzzing with conversations about Buzz. Most people seemed less than enthusiastic, citing too many other social networking sites and an overload of tweets and status updates already. Others thought that it wasn’t worth it to switch over to Buzz from Facebook. Still, there were some optimistic souls. We’ll see what comes of the noise...

Author: By Sophie T. Bearman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What’s the Buzz about Buzz? | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

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