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...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 districts, like Ladue in St. Louis, Mo. - which includes...
...solution to deal with an emergency." But in Washington, the emergency has never ended. The government still gives farmers your money--more than ever over the past decade--along with research projects to expand their yields, restoration projects to clean up their messes, flood-control and irrigation projects to protect and enhance their land, visa programs to supply them with cheap labor, ethanol mandates and tariffs to boost their prices, and tax breaks by the bushel...
...food prices; they only receive a few pennies from the sale of every loaf of bread or box of cornflakes. When commodities are cheap, the main beneficiaries are well-heeled grain -and-livestock processors like Cargill, Tyson and Archer Daniels Midland. No, the real goal has always been to protect farmers from the vagaries of the weather and the market. Farming is indeed a risky business--most businesses are risky businesses--and farm policies have tried to reduce that risk by any means available. The result has been an evolving mix of income supports, price supports, disaster relief, government purchases...
...tastes, and he used his line-item veto on the bill's stipulation that employers who don't cover their workers pay $295 per employee each year into a fund to subsidize coverage. The lawmakers easily overrode it, as Romney surely knew they would. "He was trying to protect his own political position for the future, as opposed to creating a substantive policy," DiMasi says, still irked by what he considers Romney's grandstand play to the GOP base. "He knew full well he was running for President of the United States...
City Councillor Henrietta Davis, who was on the council when it first considered making the area a historic landmark, urged the commission to initiate a new study to protect the area...