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Rather than relying on such underestimates, the Produce Safety Project study used CDC data showing that there are 76 million new cases of foodborne illness in the U.S. each year. Study author Robert Scharff, a professor at Ohio State University and a former FDA economist, then tried to account for the overall cost of illness, factoring in every expense, from onetime costs for prescription medication to losses in "quality of life" - a dollars-and-cents picture of exactly how miserable that bout with a bad falafel made you. "The study really illustrates just how serious foodborne illness...
...obtain evidence that directly led to the apprehension of six members of a terror cell in Lackawanna, NY and seven members of another cell in Portland, Ore. Nearly a decade’s worth of congressional testimonies and intelligence agency reports, including the 2004 testimony of former FBI director Robert Mueller and a 29-page report released by the Justice Department that year, provides countless other specific examples of the act’s contributions to national security. While it would be foolish to assert that none of these successes would have been possible without the Patriot Act, lack...
...problem in using reconciliation is twofold: 1) it's open to amendments and many Republicans Senators, including Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, say they plan on filing hundreds of amendments, potentially gumming up the Senate for months; and 2) under a provision known as the Byrd rule - named after Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia - every provision passed through reconciliation must be deemed relevant to the underlying budget by the parliamentarian...
...Oscar-nominated film Food Inc., Robert Kenner took on the American food industry and revealed how industrial production is making the nation less healthy. With Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser as a co-producer and Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan as a consultant, Kenner's film takes consumers on a journey from the supermarket aisle to meat-packing plants to Congressional food-safety hearings to demonstrate how a handful of corporations often put profit ahead of consumer health, worker safety and the livelihood of the American farmer. (See a video interview with Michael Pollan...
...recent years, Lingford has taught many science concentrators who were inspired to try animation after seeing “The Inner Life of the Cell,” an animated film by Harvard biology professors Viel and Robert Lue. The 8-minute clip, which illustrates a cell’s inner workings, received international attention and showcased the didactic possibilities of digital animation. Lingford contacted Viel, and together they designed Animating Science...