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Sunday, November 20, 2011

An EU body has prevented bottled water producers from claiming that drinking water prevents dehydration. Two German professors who were testing EU product labeling laws requested what they thought was an uncontroversial statement: "regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration." In February, the European Food Standards Authority rejected the request. "We fear there is something wrong in the state of Europe," said professor Andreas Hahn of the Institute for Food Science and Human Nutrition.


A Georgia factory worker claims in a federal lawsuit that he was fired after he refused to wear a sticker proclaiming that his factory had been accident-free for 666 days. Workers at the Pliant Corp. plastics plant wore stickers counting the number of days without accidents. As it approached 666, devout Christian Billy E. Hyatt told a manager that wearing 666 would be forcing him "to accept the mark of the beast and to be condemned to hell."


A South Florida woman is accused of practicing medicine without a license after allegedly giving a patient buttocks injections with "Fix a Flat."


Wednesday, November 16, 2011

A Des Moines, Ia., baker refused to make a wedding cake for lesbian couple Trina Vodraska and Janelle Sievers because of her religious beliefs, a decision the couple called bigotry. "I'm sorry to tell you, but I'm not going to be able to do your cake," baker Victoria Childress of Victoria's Cake Cottage told the couple. "I'm a Christian, and I do have convictions." read more


"Folks, you fired the first shot. It's not about Barack Obama. It's not about Joe Biden. It's about whether middle-class people are going to be put back in the saddle again – because you are the people who make this country move," Vice President Joe Biden said at a campaign event in Ohio today. read more


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