The California legislature is considering a bill sponsored by state Sen. Dean Florez (D-Shafter) preempting individual counties from banning the growing of genetically enhanced crops...
The California legislature is considering a bill sponsored by state Sen. Dean Florez (D-Shafter) preempting individual counties from banning the growing of genetically enhanced crops...
"Rhetoric and paté abounded on the first day of the City Council's ban" of foie gras in Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune, "as restaurateurs and gourmands openly flouted the prohibition – cultured, giddy, goose-liver-fueled acts of defiance...
Melvin Schwartz, a Nobel Prize winner and member of the Stanford physics faculty from 1966 to 1983 who also founded a Silicon Valley company, died Aug. 28 at a Twin Falls, Idaho, nursing home after struggling with Parkinson's disease and hepatitis C...
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