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Cloned-animal products aren't on store shelves yet - the industry won't begin selling them for at least a few months, after a government-recommended "transition period" - but when they finally do appear in supermarkets you may not even notice, because they won't be labeled. "The FDA does not require labeling if there [are] no food safety issues," said Dr. Stephen Sundlof, director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, at a January press conference...
Until now, the genetic traceability of meat hasn't been much of a public health issue in the U.S. But with the USDA recall and the FDA's Jan. 15 approval of cloned-animal food products, Cunningham thinks Americans will want to know where the food in their grocery store is coming from. A 2007 poll by the Consumers Union found, in fact, that 89% of consumers would prefer that cloned foods be distinguished with labels. "This idea that all our food can be anonymous, trucked from anywhere in the world with its origins lost along...
...since he allegedly stopped taking medications for a condition the authorities declined to specify. State police said he had obtained a permit to purchase a weapon in January 2007. He picked up two of the weapons used in the attack - the shotgun and the Glock - from a Champaign, Ill., store on Feb. 9. The other two weapons - 9-mm and .38 caliber pistols - were purchased at the same store last year...
...everyone who moves here will still own a car, because this is a suburb, right? When we lived in Shanghai, my wife walked out of our apartment to a street market a few blocks away to buy vegetables every day. Here, you drive to the store. In China, the car, almost as much as the new apartment or house, is a badge of honor among the newly minted middle class. If the neighbors I've met are any indication, many people will still drive into town rather than commute on a crowded train. This, despite the fact that it costs...
Today Current Energy operates what is probably the first dedicated energy-efficiency retail store in the U.S., a hip space in Dallas' tony Highland Park where shoppers can buy ultraefficient air conditioners, tankless water heaters and even electric votive candles. But while the store itself is green cool--reminiscent of the Apple retail shops that Harberg helped roll out in his previous career--the real value in Current Energy isn't in its gadgets but in the services it offers. "It's an art to figure out how to save money at home," Harberg says. "We do the work...