Drop the spatula and step away from the grill. You may be planning to celebrate Memorial Day weekend with friends and family, but youd better not eat or drink. That is, if you listen to the medias warnings about the food industry from soda to snacks and yes, even grill marks on your burger.
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Food or Fuel? You Aint Seen Nothin Yet [3]
The media are focused again on tough consumer choices and gas prices. But theres a bigger price squeeze affecting our grocery shopping: corn. U.S. ethanol mandates are causing a widespread spike in food prices. Is the biofuel even feasible? Food security expert Dennis Avery explains.
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G: USA Today finds age is the real measure of income inequality
B: Networks put out scare about diabetes drug
U: Washington Post celebrates author whose work led to DDT ban [4]
Networks Dramatize Diabetes Drug Dangers [5]
USA Today: Money Gap Not Class-Related; Its Age [6]
Post Glosses over Deaths Linked to Silent Spring Author [7]
CNNs Roberts: Obamas $162,100 Senate Salary Modest [8]
President Bush Ratchets Up Atrocious CAFE Regulations [10] (Center for Individual Freedom)
The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to State and Local Taxpayers [11] (Heritage Foundation)
DiCaprios 11th Hour Latest Film to Downgrade Humans, Push for Greener Cities [12](Variety)
The Mortgage Market Mess [13] (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
Medical Studies: From Peer Review to Fear Review [14] (American Council
on Science and Health)
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