Monsanto’s Neotame molecule allowed in USDA certified organic foods
Mary Nash Stoddard The Aspartame Consumer Safety Network Everyone wants to indulge a sweet tooth at this festive time of year, without suffering the inevitable…
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Transactional Databases
Bill Rounds Lew Rockwell WHAT ARE TRANSACTIONAL DATABASES? A transactional database is where a database transaction might consist of one or more data-manipulation statements and…
Shock: Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson favors marijuana legalization
Robertson a welcome addition to drug reform circles, former narc tells Raw Story Wikimedia Commons Image Stephen C. Webster Raw Story Count this among the…
Online petition in Malaysia against releasing GM mosquitoes
image: Reuters G. Vinod Free Malaysia Today PETALING JAYA: Concerned citizens who are against the proposed release of genetically modified (GM) male mosquitoes in certain…
Census: Fast Growth in States With No Income Tax
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Michael Barone The Washington Examiner For those of us who are demographic buffs, Christmas came four days early when Census Bureau director Robert…
Passengers And ACLU Critique Random Baggage Checks
Kathy Wilens/AP WUSA9 WASHINGTON (WUSA) — There’s more fallout from Metro’s plan to randomly screen passenger’s bags for explosives. The ACLU calls random screening ineffective…
After Freeze, Settlement Building Booms in West Bank
Image: New York Times/Rina Castelnuovo Ethan Bronner NY Times JERUSALEM — In the three months since Israel ended its settlement construction freeze in the West…
How the Fed let small banks take on too much debt, then fail
Greg Gordon and Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve Board, chastised for regulatory inaction that contributed to the subprime mortgage meltdown,…
Banknotes go electric to outwit counterfeiters
Image: Action Press/Rex Features Editor’s Note: Used to “simplify tracking” of bank notes. How convenient. John Evans New Scientist GOOD old-fashioned cash is to go…
Banknotes go electric to outwit counterfeiters
Image: Action Press/Rex Features Editor’s Note: Used to “simplify tracking” of bank notes. How convenient. John Evans New Scientist GOOD old-fashioned cash is to go…
Pope’s child porn ‘normal’ claim sparks outrage among victims
Belfast Telegraph Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as…
North Korea threatens nuclear ‘holy war’
Park Ji Ho/AP Editor’s Note: As many already have commented, would North Korea actually use the phrase “holy war?” It is an atheist state more…
Pakistani drone victim seeks to put US on trial
Chris Brummitt Associated Press ISLAMABAD — Sadaullah Wazir says he was relaxing in his front yard when the missile struck, hurling him against the wall…
US press should fear being targeted: Assange
AFP WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that a US government effort to prosecute him should serve as a warning to journalists in the United…