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Law Requiring Listing Of Cell Phone Radiation Levels Passes (in
San Francisco) Scientists believe a new star is born
Quantum Control: New Step Forward for Supercomputers
Foetus 'cannot feel pain before 24 weeks' Official review of scientific evidence contradicts a key argument that anti-abortion campaigners have used for reducing the termination limit.
'Genetically altered salmon' on
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America's Deadliest Sweetener Betrays Millions, Then Hoodwinks
You With Name Change Aspartame is the most controversial
food additive in history, and its approval for use in food was
the most contested in FDA history. In the end, the artificial
sweetener was approved, not on scientific grounds, but rather
because of
strong political and financial pressure. After all,
aspartame was previously listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical
warfare agent!
History Why is "Poodle Blanket" Classified? "Keeping information on 'Poodle Blanket' a secret today shows how obsolete the Pentagon's security guidance is," commented William Burr, the Archive's analyst who asked for the documents in 1992 -- making the request one of the oldest still pending in the U.S. government. Lessons from failed Cold War spy mission in China Detail by painful detail, the CIA is coming to grips with one of the most devastating episodes in its history, a botched cloak-and-dagger flight into China that stole two decades of freedom from a pair of fresh-faced American operatives and cost the lives of their two pilots. |
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