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A new effort to help shoppers stay healthy: Country of Origin Labeling
A new effort to help shoppers stay healthy http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/113/story/277025.html Published: Monday, October 06, 2008 Press and wire reports WASHINGTON - No more wondering where your hamburger came from, or where your lettuce and tomatoes were grown: Shoppers can now see lots more foods labeled with the country of origin. It's a law years in the making but timely, as China's milk scandal and the recent salmonella-tainted Mexican peppers prompt growing concern over the safety of imported foods. Still, hold the import-bashing: Numerous outbreaks in recent years have come from U.S.-produced foods, like spinach grown in California.Church Of Scientology Convicted Of Fraud In France
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/church-of-scientology-con_n_335063.html PARIS — A Paris court convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than €600,000 ($900,000) on Tuesday but stopped short of banning the group as prosecutors had demanded. The group's French branch immediately announced it would appeal the verdict. The court convicted the Church of Scientology's French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized fraud.Charity and the good ol' Constitution
Charity and the good ol' Constitution By FRANK MIELE (NW Montana Daily Inter lake) "Where do you find in the Constitution any authority to give away the public money in charity?"It might be a question out of today's headlines, but it isn't.No doubt, it could rightly be asked in the health-care debate, but it goes well beyond that. In every disaster, in every disturbance, the federal government today is ready with a checkbook at hand to help those in need. Hurricane Katrina?Michael Bastian for GANT
MICHAEL BASTIAN TO DESIGN CAPSULE COLLECTION FOR GANT GANT announces today that Michael Bastian, the menswear designer who has lead the return to a new era of all-American style, will design a Fall 2010 men’s capsule collection for GANT, the originator of American sportswear since 1949. This exciting collaboration will be unveiled this winter in New York and other key international markets. Michael Bastian commented, “I see my version of the GANT guy as the younger brother to the MICHAEL BASTIAN guy.Osama bin Elvis
Osama bin Elvis By Angelo M. Codevilla All the evidence suggests Elvis Presley is more alive today than Osama bin Laden. But tell that to the CIA and all the other misconceptualizers of the War on Terror.CBS: Bush Remembered for Not-So-Smooth Talk
(AP) President George W. Bush will leave behind a legacy of Bushisms, the label stamped on the commander in chief's original speaking style. Some of the president's more notable malaprops and mangled statements: # "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."Coming Soon: New Albums
As usual, Music Row is preparing to unleash a torrent of superstar albums over the next three months to fuel the holiday-shopping frenzy. Among the sparkling new offerings are Rascal Flatts' first greatest hits package, Brad Paisley's first instrumental CD, Alabama crooner Randy Owen's first solo outing and Lee Ann Womack's first studio album in three years. This month has already seen the release of Jessica Simpson's country debut project, Do You Know (Epic/Columbia Nashville), which will debut at No.Women in Politics After Hillary and Sarah
The “Bitch” and the “Ditz” How the Year of the Woman reinforced the two most pernicious sexist stereotypes and actually set women back. By Amanda Fortini/NY Times Published Nov 16, 2008 In the past few weeks, Sarah Palin has been variously described as a diva who engaged in paperwork-throwing tantrums, a shopaholic who spent $150,000 on clothing, a seductress who provocatively welcomed staffers while wearing only a towel, and a “whack-job”—contemporary code for hysteric. Worse, she was accused by a suspiciously gleeful Fox News reporter named Carl Cameron of not knowing Africa was a continent, of being unable to name the members of NAFTA, indeed of being unable to name the countries of North America at all.Alphadi: The Desert Prince
Seidnaly Sidhamed, alias ALPHADI, was born on June 1, 1957 in Timbuktu, Mali, to parents who worked as traders. In Niger, he grew up surrounded by his eight brothers and sisters. Very soon, he began amusing himself by putting makeup onto the faces of his mother and sisters.
Big Names in Retail Fashion Are Trading Teams
Courtesy of the NY Times: Big Names in Retail Fashion Are Trading Teams By ERIC WILSON and MICHAEL BARBARO Published: March 8, 2008 It’s free-agency season in American fashion. Leaving a Retailer... To Design for Another Isaac Mizrahi, the everyman’s fashion oracle, is about to leave behind his wildly popular cheap-chic clothing collections at Target to be the creative director for Liz Claiborne, the stalwart shopping-mall label.
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