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Melamine traces found in samples of U.S. infant formula

Published November 26, 2008, 12:27 pm, Scientific American

The Food and Drug Administration has found trace amounts of the industrial poison melamine in baby formula and nutritional supplements sold in the U.S. The chemical is the same one that sickened at least 50,000 babies in China this year who drank contaminated formula.  [More]

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  • Northeastern University Launches First Amendment Center: "The coalition, alarmed at the growing difficulties faced by citizens, journalists and public policy advocates in gaining access to the workings of government at all levels, selected Northeastern University as its academic research partner because of the University 9;s reputation for ?sleeves-rolle d-up? involvement in important issues outside the school's academic boundaries.&qu ot;
  • Last Secrets of the Bush Administration - Charles Homans: Comparisons of our deeply divided nation to a literally civil-war-torn one aren?t worth belaboring, but it is a fact that pervasive misinformation and secrecy, worsened by an increasingly tribal political culture and the sheer complexity of the issues at hand, have left Americans with fragmented and conflicting understandings of what exactly has been done in our name over the past eight years. Without a collectively agreed-upon story of the Bush administration ?s excesses, efforts by Congress to undo them and ensure that they don?t happen again are likely to be misinterpreted by half of the electorate as a Democratic power grab rather than a reinstatement of constitutional protections. That would worsen the partisan trench warfare that got us an irresponsible Congress and hubristic White House in the first place.

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