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When Principal Deborah Bevan started school this past September at Craneville Elementary in Dalton, Mass., there was a peculiar topic of conversation circulating in the teachers lounge: Peanut butter. Or, more specifically...
Like hundreds of other school districts across the country, Craneville Elementary is facing a student body that is more allergic to peanuts than ever before. "I have never seen anything like this," says Bevan, a 25-year teaching veteran whose 489-student elementary school includes seven with peanut allergies this year. "These allergies came out of nowhere." To protect vulnerable students, Craneville and many other schools are being forced to establish what educators are calling "peanut-free zones" - areas in the cafeteria and throughout the school where nut products are banned; some schools are going nut-free altogether. In some...
According to the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, peanut allergies more than doubled between 1997 and 2002 in children under 5 and are now estimated to affect more than 1% of school age children. "It is like being in a minefield," says Dr. Scott Sicherer, an associate professor of pediatrics, allergy and immunology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Researchers don't yet know why these allergies are blooming, but some experts think premature exposure to nut-based products in infancy may be to blame. Others believe the link is genetic. Still others cite the hygiene...
...showing of “Hillary! Uncensored: Banned by the Media” hosted by the Harvard Republican Club, film-goers discreetly unwrapped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and miniature Almond Joys as they listened to associate producer Douglas C. Cogan denounce what he called the “largest election law fraud in the history of the United States...
...Mart shoppers, meet Xu Yaqing. She's a 62-year-old retiree who lives on a fixed income in Beijing. Xu and her husband get by on $263 a month, and lately, the couple's monthly pensions haven't been enough. The price of the peanut oil that Xu cooks with has doubled in the past few months, and soaring costs for other staples have forced them to cut back on milk and to substitute bean curd for meat. They're not starving. But they're scared. "Prices are going up so much and so quickly," Xu complains...