By Eliz­a­beth Weise (USA Today) Last week in a series of morn­ing TV inter­views, Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion Com­mis­sioner Mar­garet Ham­burg told con­sumers that they should reject over-​​easy eggs and avoid “runny egg yolks for mop­ping up with toast.” Carol Tucker-​​Foreman, an assis­tant sec­re­tary of agri­cul­ture under Pres­i­dent Carter who’s worked on food pol­icy at...
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First of all, does anyone know why the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform even held a hearing about steroid usage among baseball players? Was there a dry spell and the Committee couldn't find anything in the government that needed to be reformed? This is the Congress that in 1994 didn't ask for...
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By Sarah De Heer (Slash​Food​.com) Just when we thought Times Square had it all — Pop-​​Tarts intro­duces Pop-​​Tarts World, a 3,000 square-​​foot sugar metrop­o­lis, which opened Tues­day. The store has Pop-​​Tarts mer­chan­dise, a cus­tom T-​​shirt cre­ation sta­tion, the “vari­etizer” machine and a Pop-​​Tarts Café. The cen­ter­piece of the store, the Café, lists about 30 menu...
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By Jeff Reinitz (Water­loo Cedar Falls Courier) Carl Herold, 62, said he was tired of con­stantly call­ing police to com­plain about the “hip­pie tunes” com­ing from across the street, so Wednes­day he got an air horn. He set up the horn on his deck fac­ing the neighbor’s home. He ran a hose to an air...
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New research from married dating site IllicitEncounters.com shows that most cheating spouses are reluctant to give up their unfaithful ways. The study of 800 men and 800 women revealed that 33% of cheating spouses have had an affair while on holiday, and 6% have dared to cheat while on holiday with their spouse. The...
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(Wahing­ton Post) Cathryn Wash­ing­ton, 67, left 14-​​year-​​old Delta in the vehi­cle as she ran in to buy some pet prod­ucts on an after­noon when the tem­per­a­ture hit 104 degrees, Sgt. David Luck­en­baugh of Fred­er­ick Ani­mal Con­trol said. She intended to just be 15 min­utes or so, she later told her estranged hus­band Charles Wash­ing­ton. She...
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By Heather Mac Donald (City Jour­nal) The cam­pus rape industry’s cen­tral tenet is that one-​​quarter of all col­lege girls will be raped or be the tar­gets of attempted rape by the end of their col­lege years (com­pleted rapes out­num­ber­ing attempted rapes by a ratio of about three to two). The girls’ assailants are not...
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By Ross Eisen­brey and Kathryn Edwards (Eco­nomic Pol­icy Insti­tute) Many intern­ships today cre­ate or per­pet­u­ate seri­ous inequal­i­ties, espe­cially for stu­dents from fam­i­lies of mod­est means. Because so many intern­ships are unpaid, the cur­rent sys­tem favors stu­dents from wealth­ier fam­i­lies. Unpaid intern­ships require stu­dents to forego wages and finance a liv­ing with­out a pay­check, putting...
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