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The verdict is still out – A controversy if brewing that reminds us of the arguments about genetically-modified foods: The Food and Drug Administration’s new (Aug. 22nd) regulation that will allow irradiation pasteurization to be used on fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce to kill illness-causing bacteria.

Food safety expert Dennis Olson, who has researched food irradiation for more than a decade, is convinced that irradiation could have prevented some of the illnesses and three deaths that occurred during spinach and lettuce outbreaks in 2006.
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Is there such a thing as MEN-opause? New research shows that both women AND men have biological clocks that start ticking when they reach their mid-30s. And was early man a mighty hunter? Turns out he was more of a sneaky scavenger.
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The recent suicide of the government scientist who is suspected of being behind the 2001 anthrax terrorism brings up the question of what FBI investigators, who were about to close in on him, have been doing all this time. It turns out that they worked for almost seven years in secret.

Most people did not know that the work in Ray Goehner’s materials characterization department at Sandia National Laboratories was contributing important information to the FBI?s investigation of letters containing bacillus anthracis, the spores that cause the disease anthrax. The spores were mailed in the fall of 2001 to several news media offices and to two U.S. senators. Five people were killed.
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?but we are also practicing terrorism AGAINST bees! – How can you find a serial killer before he strikes again? Study the bees! And a single drug manufacturer may be behind bee disappearances here AND in France.

Bees look for nectar away from their hives. In the same way, serial killers avoid committing murder near their homes. In BBC News, Jennifer Carpenter quotes crime researcher Nigel Raine as saying, “We’re really hopeful that we can improve the model for criminology?Most murders happen close to the killer’s home, but not in the area directly surrounding a criminal’s house, where crimes are less likely to be committed because of the fear of getting caught by someone they know.”
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