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...Adjustments go beyond tailored birthday cake recipes. A 2001 FAAN study of 253 parents of children with food allergies found that childhood allergies have a significant impact on family activities and lifestyles. Heidi Pasternak, a part-time tutor in Lexington, Massachusetts, had to quit her full-time teaching job because she couldn't find a milk-free daycare for her son Lucas (peanuts, tree nuts, milk, egg, sesame, shellfish, fish, barley). "The choices of things we've done as a family are severely limited," Pasternak says. "We only went to food-free places when he was a toddler. No Chuck...
...opponents that led to Hariri's murder in a massive bomb blast five months later. And two years on, that confrontation appears to still be taking a deadly toll. Gemayel's murder has brought Lebanon's Western-backed government dangerously close to collapse. Six pro-Syrian Shi'ite ministers quit the 24-member coalition cabinet a week ago after their bid for extra seats that would give them a veto-wielding one-third stake in the government was rebuffed. Now, following Gemayel's murder, it will take the resignation - or death - of two more ministers to bring down the government...
...ministerial resignations came on the eve of a cabinet discussion to endorse draft United Nations statutes for the creation of an international tribunal to judge Hariri's assassins. With Damascus widely blamed for the killing, Ahdab says the resignations of the pro-Syrian ministers were carefully timed. "They [quit] so they didn't have to ratify what came from the U.N.," he says...
Kevin J. H. Paik ’07, who quit online poker last year, said he understood why people were opposed to gambling...
...breach in trust in connection with a corruption scandal at Europe's largest automaker; in Braunschweig, Germany. State prosecutors allege that Hartz oversaw illegal payments of $2.4 million made without Volkswagen's knowledge to labor representative Klaus Volkert, who resigned soon after the investigation began last June. Hartz, who quit last July, denies wrongdoing but accepts the perks were in his "area of supervision." If convicted, he could face five years in jail...