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...agency gained some respect in 1991 as new commissioner David Kessler took aim at the food industry, insisting that nutritional claims on labels be based on scientific fact. The FDA seized brand-name products like Procter & Gamble's Citrus Hill Fresh Choice orange juice that failed to meet strict standards...
...suffered a particularly disappointing setback when parliament effectively killed a government measure to let Japanese soldiers serve overseas in United Nations peacekeeping operations. After harsh criticism in the West for Japan's failure to participate in the gulf coalition against Iraq, Miyazawa was determined to ease his country's strict limitations on military service abroad. The bill was approved by the Lower House of the Diet after sometimes violent debate, but when the Prime Minister tried to push it through the Upper House, support drained away...
...show's appeal is undeniable. "It's about Joe Blunsten--a good, honest family man who has one fatal flaw: he can't hold onto a job," says Gailiunas. And, if you haven't guessed already, the show has a socialist bent. "There's always a strict dichotomy between the evil Tycoon and the working man," adds Aron...
...Strict separationists have worked not only to keep religious practices out of the classroom; they also want to prevent religious activity anywhere on school grounds. Frequently under litigation is the issue of what religious materials may be distributed on those precincts. Earlier this year, a federal judge ruled that school officials in Wauconda, Ill., could stop a junior high school student, Megan Hedges, from distributing copies of an evangelical Christian newspaper, Issues and Answers. The court agreed with school administrators who did not want to appear to endorse the publication, which includes articles with headlines like SATANISM BRED IN SECULAR...
...popular compromise proposal of recent years is a moment of silence. Douglas Laycock, associate dean of the University of Texas School of Law, who favors strict government neutrality toward religion, finds it hard to believe that it could be unconstitutional merely to tell a classroom of kids to keep quiet for a minute. He says, however, that "it's beastly hard to implement it in a fair way. Teachers do deliver messages, and the children do have understandings...