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...While the Food and Drug Administration has chosen to downplay the risk associated with tuna, watchdog organizations like the Environmental Working Group and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group are throwing up red flags, accusing the FDA of taking a lax position on an important safety issue...
...spending cuts, while others will be awash in new programs that fulfill promises made on the campaign trail. But amidst the debates over our chief executive’s financial plan, one program has been essentially abolished without the appropriate outrage from our nation’s public interest watchdog groups: the White House Internship Program...
Following through on the scheme can be hazardous. Scambusters.org, an Internet watchdog group, says that an American was murdered in Nigeria in 1995 while pursuing a 4-1-9 scam. U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reports show that another victim was confronted by two Nigerians with automatic weapons, and was forced to turn over $4,000 in traveler's checks before receiving permission to leave the country. Another victim lost over $400,000 before reporting the fraud...
...Maybe not science. But public opinion, when it comes to environmentalism, is a notoriously lazy watchdog. Polls on the Alaska drilling issue were inconclusive. (The modification of "oil drilling" with the words "environmentally responsible" tended to take the teeth right out of the opposition, even though the term is as murky as the air over Los Angeles...
Meanwhile at last week's Demo 2001, a prestigious computer- industry gathering in Phoenix, Ariz., the star of the show was iRobot, an eight-wheeled mechanical watchdog with a webcam nose that can patrol an empty house and send live video back to your website. "We're taking technology out of the virtual world and into the real world," says iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner...