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Rest assured, however. The government intends to step up scrutiny on this controversial area of science. Yesterday, the Clinton administration announced new regulations by the Food and Drug Administration to test the use of these high-tech foods. By and large, these measures are designed less to scrutinize these products than they are to assuage the fears of a growing percentage of the population...
There has been a recent resurgence of protest over the use of genetically advanced food. In Europe, protesters have threatened to boycott American produce, and many foreign supermarkets have acquiesced to this sentiment by no longer carrying the food. Hundreds of protestors attended a conference at The Hague earlier this year, dressing up as mutilated animals and chanting "Frankenfood...
Chapter President and co-Chair of the Social Science Election Committee Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, said the nominees' GPAs were often indistinguishable, forcing the committee to use the quality and diversity of the courses taken as a tiebreaker between candidates...
...Stock Exchange and Frankfurt's Deutsche Bourse merged Wednesday as equal partners, with a NASDAQ tie-in rendering the new iX (international exchange) the 500-pound gorilla of European markets. "This deal has been in the works for years but kept breaking down over whether the merged exchange should use the German or the British electronic trading platform," says TIME Atlantic business editor Richard Hornik. "But three weeks ago, that debate was rendered moot when the British system crashed and shut down electronic trading in London for eight hours...
...nation's cable operations - essentially government-sanctioned monopolies - are facing both negative and positive forces brought on by changes in technology. On the one hand, they are increasingly likely to lose their only-game-in-town status to satellite services. On the other, they stand to benefit from increasing use by Internet customers drawn to their high-speed connections. The latter is not a point lost on Disney, which apart from its TV and movie holdings has considerable aspirations to be an Internet player. During the dispute, Disney was quick to point out its concern that Time Warner's pending...