| Harmful pesticides found in everyday food products
Government promises to rid the nation's food supply of brain-damaging pesticides aren't doing the job, according to the results of a yearlong study that carefully monitored the diets of a group of local children. The peer-reviewed study found that the urine and saliva of children eating a variety of conventional foods from area groceries contained biological markers of organophosphates, the family of pesticides spawned by the creation of nerve gas agents in World War II. When the same children ate organic fruits, vegetables and juices, signs of pesticides were not found. "The transformation is extremely rapid," said Chensheng Lu, the principal author of the study published online in the current issue of Environmental Health Perspectives. "Once you switch from conventional food to organic, the pesticides (malathion and chlorpyrifos) that we can measure in the urine disappears.
COMMONWEALTH GAMES: Glasgow joy as city wins 2014 bid
About 2,000 youngsters from local primary and high schools packed into the Tollcross Leisure Centre, where swimming events will be held at the Games. The main hall erupted as the news broke and the youngsters got to their feet cheering and waving flags. About 20 swimmers in the main pool splashed around with delight. Garry Bruce, manager of Tollcross Leisure Centre, said: "I'm elated, over the moon. I'm really proud of my staff and everything we have done in the build up. "I'm looking forward to the new additions to the facilities." The leisure centre will get a new 50m pool and an additional 4,000 seats for spectators. The news was being broken today to travellers via broadcasts at train stations and airports and also on trains, taxis, buses, ferries and even Glasgow's underground via Tannoy systems, big screens and digital displays.
A note to liberals about economics
How does that work for you? 1/3 less electricity than when Sadaam ran it, less clean water, no garbage services, get your own security. Pure economic rules - no government interference. That's the ticket. Or how about this - more of the same. The last 7 years have been great haven't they? Skyrocketing oil prices - from $20 to $100 a barrel during Bush's presidency. Shrinking middle class. Huge jumps in tuition costs. And now a housing crisis - and possibly a recession - brought on by - drum roll please - deregulation of the lending market - i.e. FREE MARKET ECONOMICS! Isn't it GREAT. We seem to do one of these every time great conservative minds get another bright idea (read rip-off scam) for a free market. Remember the Savings & Loan scandal and Keating 5? (See John McCain's personnel file for that one).
On the Wings of Film
As for researching her role as Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes, she watched some of Hepburn's early screwball comedies. “I can't imagine them having sex," she said, reflecting on the real-life romance of Hepburn and Howard Hughes, certainly one of Hollywood's least likely couples, People still come up to her praising her role in Titanic , when it was actually Kate Winslet. Most recent role: Indiana Jones. In it, “I'm a baddie." Introducing Christie, Festival honcho Roger Durling --- blonde for this year's event --- told the Arlington audience, “I'm pretty flabbergasted that we have here the amazing Julie Christie." .
Crash could revive debate about seat belts on tour, transit, school ...
When a tour bus crashed in Utah on Sunday, nearly everyone on board was thrown from the wreckage. No one was wearing a seat belt. Motorcoaches, like the Arrow Stage Lines bus that rolled, are not required to have seat belts for bus riders. But neither are school buses or mass-transit buses like those used by School District 51 and Grand Valley Transit. The debate regarding seat belts in buses has risen and fallen through the years. "In my opinion seat belts certainly are much better than without," Mesa County Chief Deputy Coroner Rob Kurtzman said Monday. "The vast majority of motor vehicle deaths that I do an examination on, if they were wearing their seat belt, they would have survived." But bus industry advocates say there is no evidence that seat belts on buses save lives.
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