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What's up with Peanuts?

According to the National Peanut Board (yes, apparently one exists), the average American consumes six pounds of peanuts and peanut butter each year. If that's true, then I probably covered that just during the holiday season alone, since I am peanut butter's #1 fan. I speak highly of any product that can get me to eat celery. So, it was much to my dismay to find out that since September 8th, at least 486 people have been sickened due to an outbreak of salmonella typhimurium in peanut products. One may think that it's pretty easy to avoid peanuts until you can be sure it's safe to consume Mr. Planters again. Simply cut back on the PB&Js, right? But when you really think about it- most ice cream, protein bars, snack cakes, and crackers have some form of peanut in their ingredients. Click here for the FDA's list of recalled products. The outbreak can be traced back to products manufactured by the Peanut Corporation of America in Blakely, Georgia. Some of the recal

United Experience for Award Winners

A feature of the UK Sport Fast-track Practitioner Programme (FPP), a one-year scheme designed to accelerate the professional development of sports science and sports medicine practitioners, is the opportunity it gives young practitioners to learn from some of the worlds leading experts. And for three English Institute of Sport (EIS) practitioners amongst last year’s graduates that certainly proved to be the case when they took up the opportunity to visit the training ground of newly crowned World Club Champions Manchester United earlier this season. Alistair Patterson, a Performance Analyst, along with Kathryn Brown and Bronwen Lundy - both Nutritionists - formed part of a group which visited the Carrington complex after winning a UK Sport Innovation Award. “Throughout our internship year we attended a number of workshops and at the first of these we were given a task” Patterson explains. “We were split into four groups and given a brief to explore ways to improve the ease with which e

President Bush Discusses No Child Left Behind

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for the warm welcome. And Laura and I are thrilled to be here at Kearny School. We have come because this is one of the really fine schools in the city of Philadelphia. We bring greetings from the Nation's Capital, but more importantly, we bring appreciation for those who are working so hard to make sure that every child can learn. President George W. Bush gestures as he addresses his remarks Thursday, Jan. 8, 2008 at the General Philip Kearny School in Philadelphia, in support of the No Child Left Behind Act, urging Congress to strenghten and reauthorize the legislation. White House photo by Chris Greenberg You know, seven years ago today, I had the honor of signing a bill that forever changed America's school systems. It was called the No Child Left Behind Act. I firmly believe that thanks to this law, more students are learning, an achievement gap is closing. And on this anniversary, I have come to talk about why we need to keep the law strong. If yo

New NASA Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica

WASHINGTON -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research. The super-pressure balloon ultimately will carry large scientific experiments to the brink of space for 100 days or more. This seven-million-cubic-foot super-pressure balloon is the largest single-cell, super-pressure, fully-sealed balloon ever flown. When development ends, NASA will have a 22 million-cubic-foot balloon that can carry a one-ton instrument to an altitude of more than 110,000 feet, which is three to four times higher than passenger planes fly. "This flight test is a very important step forward in building a new capability for scientific ballooning based on sound engineering and operational development," said W. Vernon Jones, senior scientist for suborbital research at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "The team has further work to do to enable the