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...Maryland Stalking Salmonella's Source U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials are now looking at serrano peppers, cilantro and jalapeņos, as well as tomatoes, as possible sources of the salmonella outbreak that has infected more than 1,000 people since April. These items are commonly found in salsa, which many victims said they had consumed before they fell ill. Tomato growers say hasty finger-pointing by the FDA cost them millions in lost revenue...
...anti--free speech (thanks to his advocacy for campaign-finance reform). In Nevada, where the liberty lobby is strong, McCain got trounced in the primary voting, coming in third behind Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. When the state GOP tried to crown McCain at its Reno convention in April, so many Paul supporters showed up that party leaders literally fled the hall, turned off the lights and postponed the convention to make sure the anemic pro-McCain camp wasn't swamped by liberty's marauders. It was like a John Ford western set inside a hotel ballroom...
...Nonintervention Policy In your story about the political situation in Bangladesh [June 30-July 7], you cited an April International Crisis Group report alleging that the United States secretly urged the Bangladesh military to intervene in politics in January 2007. If the author of this story had contacted our embassy, we would have let him know that this is simply not true. The U.S. government has been consistent in its message that Bangladesh should be governed by leaders chosen by the people of Bangladesh in free, fair and transparent elections. This was our message before the declaration of the state...
...German machinery firms, economist Olaf Wortmann acknowledges that there has been "a change of tempo," but he insists that the upward trend is continuing. The Federation tracks the order inflow of its members, and while that number fell 12% in May, it jumped a spectacular 35% in April. "There are always monthly fluctuations," says Wortmann. For the first six months of 2008, the industry is still expecting growth of at least 5%. One heartening factor: the engineering firms' factories continue to hum at an impressive pace - capacity use is at a near-record 91%, and there has been...
...India friendship." And Afghanistan's interior ministry issued a similar statement, saying that "terrorists have carried out this attack in coordination and consultation with some of the active intelligence circles in the region." Typically, such statements - a similar one was issued after a failed assassination attempt on Karzai in April - are taken as thinly veiled allegations of involvement by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) organization...