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...advisory panel said Olestra, a fat substitute that has taken Procter & Gamble 25 years to develop, is probably safe for consumption in goodies like snacks. Olestra has the cooking capabilities and taste of the real thing, but because its molecules are so large, it passes through the body without being digested. Critics say it depletes the body of nutrients and causes diarrhea...
...that we need to know the answers to before it is released to the public." Michael Jacobson, the Center's director, says olestra not only depletes the body of vitamins A, D, and K, and causes unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms, but actually chases cancer-fighting nutrients out of the body. Procter & Gamble, olestra's manufacturer, defends the product, claiming that 8,000 people have tested olestra in food safety studies over the past 25 years...
Setting the stage for a First Amendment appeal all the way to the Supreme Court, an Ohio federal judge affirmed his initial ruling barring Business Week from publishing an article on a pending lawsuit filed by Procter & Gamble against Bankers Trust. The ruling is a classic example of unconstitutional prior restraint, according to the magazine. The censored article was based on documents under court seal in the lawsuit. In an ironic twist, however, Judge John Feikens unsealed the documents in his new decision--thus enabling the magazine to belatedly print its story, though it lost the legal argument...
...University directory is not letting us make our phone numbers unlisted, so random people are calling and saying obscene things. They can get our room numbers," Procter said...
...addition to Johnson-Arbor, Keller and Procter, five fully clothed students appear in a group shot: Leslie Yahia '96, Bethany '96, Suzanne M. '95, Anne K. Bingham '97 and Nadia Boulos...