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...agree on exactly why, the number of young sufferers has grown significantly over the past couple of decades. Nearly 90% are caused by milk, eggs, peanuts, wheat, soy, fish, shellfish or tree nuts. On January 1, a federal law took effect requiring food labels to state clearly whether a product contains any one of those main eight culprits. But significant difficulties-not necessarily medical-remain. A food allergy diagnosis has a tremendous impact on the psychological wellbeing of the entire family, says Anne Mu?oz-Furlong, founder and CEO of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), a nonprofit patient advocacy...
...Iraq, the size of the U.S. force in Afghanistan is the bare minimum - not enough to guarantee victory, but sufficient to get bogged down for years. More than half of the country's gross domestic product comes from the burgeoning opium crop, and the national government exerts little power beyond greater Kabul. There is now an average of 20 insurgent attacks daily in Afghanistan, up from five a year ago. More importantly, some of those attacks are coming from Pakistan, where the U.S. military is formally barred from hunting down foes. That makes efforts to find bin Laden, believed...
...after a massive voluntary recall of laptop batteries, Stringer turned opportunist, using the smoking cells as cover to clear out the vestiges of Sony's change-resistant culture. In Stringervision, the new Sony is led by software and linked horizontally across its vast product line. No more will the folks in the camera group not know what the TV-set guys are doing, he vows. He named a new boss of the consumer-electronics unit, Katsumi Ihara, to see to that. Software design is getting an overhaul too, so movies, MP3 players, TVs and cameras aren't strangers. The shining...
Well, not quite. The Islamists have instituted Taliban-style rules banning drinking, cinemas, dancing and women swimming, as well as curbing the press. Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the ICU's co-leader, insists these restraints are the product of spontaneous acts of piety by the public. "We don't have any rules issuing from the Islamic Courts to stop any of this," he insists. "The people are doing this by themselves without intervention by us." That seems open to dispute. Just last week, after protests erupted over the shortage of khat, the seemingly ubiquitous narcotic chewed in Somalia, the Islamists...
Such treatment is a product of the respect Tanner earned in his very first year in Cambridge...