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...With reporting by Alex Perry/Tashkent, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington
...Green’s top nine scorers from last season will be skating in Thompson Arena again this winter, including forwards Mike Maturo (18-15-33), Kent Gillings (11-18-29), and Chris Baldwin...
...underscore the point, investigators last week identified salmonella in two of several plastic vials of undisclosed substances included in a packet of papers sent to former President Clinton's office in Harlem, though the bacteria apparently grew naturally through fermentation and caused no harm. Still, the concerns of Thompson and his colleagues are understandable. Even without any diabolical intent, U.S. packing houses in recent years have accidentally passed along meat infected with deadly E. coli O157...
WHAT CAN BE DONE At Thompson's urging. Congress is considering greatly expanding the number of inspectors employed by the nation's two food-safety agencies, the Department of Agriculture, which inspects beef and poultry, including imports, and the Food and Drug Administration, which overlooks most other processed foods. Consumers can protect themselves by washing raw fruits and vegetables in soap and water or a dilute chlorine bleach solution...
...control facilities were shutting down one by one. For a President who likes his facts straight and his decisions clean, the advice George W. Bush got from his top aides was no help at all. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge had spent the day wrestling with health czar Tommy Thompson over the science of the anthrax in question, including whether it was the fluffy, airborne, superdeadly kind, as Thompson believed?or something slightly less terrifying, as Ridge thought might be possible. Each had experts to back his conclusion. Their conflict wrapped the President in the true fog of war, when...