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...plan still faces several bureaucratic hurdles. But the real test will come when Los Angeles' 8 million car lovers begin to feel the pinch. This is, after all, the city synonymous with freeways, drag races and even the drive- through church. As a former resident puts it, "In L.A. the first question is not What do you do? but What do you drive?" Will Angelenos really trade their Ferraris for car pools and their fuel-injected Chevy V-8s for electric roadsters? That remains to be seen. "We're for cleaner air, for damn sure," says Robert Harnar, a public...
Privately, State Department authorities acknowledged that the FDA may have overreacted -- all Chilean fruit on hand was ordered destroyed -- but insisted it would have been irresponsible to have acted otherwise. Government inspectors claim there is no quick way to test for liquid-cyanide poisoning in fruit. But by week's end the FDA was taking an approach similar to the airlines', allowing new imports of grapes and other small fruits but warning consumers to look carefully for holes, mushiness, discoloration or a burnt- almond smell. Safe rather than sorry had given way to FDA Commissioner Young's statement...
...doesn't mean it's easy," added Moews, who has in the past scored a perfect 120 on the test. According to Taubes, the average score on previous exams has been only one out of the possible 120 points...
WASHINGTON--Establishing guidelines to test for drug and alcohol abuse in the American workplace, the Supreme Court yesterday approved mandatory tests for some workers in sensitive government jobs or entrusted with public safety...
...rhinoviruses, luring them away from the real cell receptors in the body. Once bound to the synthetic, the viruses could be neutralized and thus prevented from causing colds. But that strategy, which might prevent but probably would not cure an active cold, has thus far worked only in the test tube. Relief is still years away...