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...many people question whether it's a good idea for fallible human beings to go mucking about with the genes of other species. It's one thing if a scientific experiment goes wrong in a lab, they say, but something else entirely if it winds up on your dinner plate. To date, there's nothing to suggest that re-engineered plants have ever done anyone any harm. Nonetheless, the European Union has blocked the importation of some GM crops, and since 1997 has required that foods that contain engineered DNA be labeled as such. Plenty of trade watchers in Washington...
...jump cut to a second screen-filling face, this one wearing, barely perceptible right up there at the top of your picture, something shiny on its head. Aha! you think, that could be a batting helmet, and ergo this new face could belong to the player at the plate who, since he's inclining his head over his invisible right shoulder, may be a left-handed hitter...
Feeding Your Child also has the smartest take I've ever seen on the importance of variety in healthy eating. Government guidelines stress the consumption of many different foods. But they never warn that this can work against you. Studies show that if a plate contains two types of cookies, for instance, you'll eat more than if only one kind is available. The same is true for vegetables. Roberts and Heyman advise parents that if they must keep cookies in the house, they should stick to one brand and save the variety for healthier foods. As with anything having...
...inauguration, to be nostalgic for slavery. Rehnquist is not commenting publicly, but we do have some insight into what else he's doing in his downtime. Earlier this month, he entered, and won, a contest in the Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock column by figuring out that a license plate reading 1 DIV 0 referred to an Infiniti. He's sure to clean up during Supreme Court Justice Week on Jeopardy...
...duty firefighter heard the screams and wrote down the license plate number of the car Wodja was driving, a blue two-door Honda Acura...