| Brooklyn Company Recalls Sweetened Lotus Root Seed and Sweetened ...
The recalled Zebra brand sweetened lotus root seed and Zebra brand sweetened coconut are sold in 6 oz. un-coded plastic bags and are a product of China, packed by Hong Kong Ever Time Food & Grocery Co. Ltd. The products were sold nationwide.
The recalls were initiated after routine sampling by New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Food Inspectors and subsequent analysis by food laboratory personnel revealed the presence of undeclared sulfites. The consumption of 10 milligrams of sulfites per serving has been reported to cause severe reactions in some asthmatics. Anaphylactic shock could occur in certain sulfite sensitive individuals upon ingesting 10 milligrams or more of sulfites.
No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with these products.
Ann Coulter Speaks At CPAC
Ann Coulter wasn't invited to CPAC this year but she came to CPAC anyway and gave a speech just down the hallway from the ballroom where John McCain spoke Thursday. The speech was only open to 1000 attendees but you can watch it here on Townhall.com. I guess we'll name this speech, "Ann Coulter's 2008 not-at-CPAC-CPAC speech." .
Hutton set for summer move to Spurs
SPURS were today refusing to give up on their bid to sign Alan Hutton before the transfer window slams shut a week tonight. But it now appears the 22-year-old Rangers star's £10m mega-move to London will go through in the summer. Hutton played and scored in Gers' 6-0 Scottish Cup rout of East Stirling last night at Ibrox and is still believed to be dead against leaving Scotland right now. .
It’s Time to End ‘Physics for Poets’
This distaste for and fear of mathematics extends beyond the student body, into the faculty, and our society as a whole. Richard Cohen, writing in The Washington Post, wrote a column in February in which he dismissed algebra as unimportant, and proclaimed his own innumeracy. "I confess to be one of those people who hate math. I can do my basic arithmetic all right (although not percentages) but I flunked algebra (once), barely passed it the second time — the only proof I’ve ever seen of divine intervention — somehow passed geometry and resolved, with a grateful exhale of breath, that I would never go near math again." It’s a sad commentary on the state of our society that a public intellectual (even a low-level one like Cohen) can write such a paragraph and be confident that it will be met with as many nods of agreement as howls of derision.
Toyoto overtakes Ford for no.2 spot in US
TOYOTA overtook struggling Ford for the number-two spot in the US market Thursday as the Japanese automaker managed to boost sales in a generally weak market. It was the first time Ford slipped below second place since 1931. Toyota's triumph came as Ford, Big-Three leader General Motors and third-place Chrysler shuttered plants and slashed low-profit sales to rental car companies amid massive restructuring programs. The market share of the Big Three US automakers fell to 51.1 per cent from 53.7 per cent in 2006 as their combined sales fell 7.1 per cent, according to Autodata. Asian automakers now command 41.7 per cent of the US market while European brands hold 7.2 per cent. Total adjusted light vehicle sales fell 1.8 per cent to 16.3 million vehicles in 2007, Autodata reported.
Hoover in the Heartland
Vermette, one of the founders and board members, makes clear that the program has "big plans and big dreams," and he said that the programs at Princeton and elsewhere don’t have enough of an impact because they are at private institutions. He would like to see something on the scale of the Hoover Institution, which is on the campus of Stanford University, eventually copied by other universities. Supporters have already provided $2 million for the effort and there are plans to raise $10 million within 3 years and $100 million within 10 years — ambitious goals, but targets that those familiar with the backers of the program say are probably achievable. Vermette, a businessman and investor who is a former president of the university’s alumni association, said that the program came out of the conviction that key ideas are lost on too many students, and that money coming into higher education doesn’t change that.
A Track Through Time
Richard Petty was a 21-year-old kid when he showed up for the first Daytona 500 in 1959. When he pulled through the tunnel of newly built Daytona International Speedway, he saw a great expanse of nothing. "We inspected the cars in the grass," Petty, 69, said recently. "And then it rained for a couple of days and the cars were actually sitting in water, because that was a swamp to begin with." Today, Daytona ranks among the most famous racing venues in the world. Its crown jewel, the Daytona 500, will be run for the 50th time on Feb. 17, and Petty, who finished 57th in the first 500 before going on to win a record seven times, will be the honorary starter. "In the beginning, Daytona was just another race," Petty said. "Darlington was our biggest race, and it took Daytona two or three years just to get even with Darlington.
McCain's Smoking Blonde
Last month, in one of his regular Q&A free-for-alls with staff, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller said the paper's stories are often too long. "The 1,200 word stories could be 800 or 900," Gawker quoted Keller as saying. Before Keller invests in copy-shrinking technology or hires USA Today editors to reach his goal, he should instruct his reporters and editors to study a daily New York Times Co. product that squeezes both fat and lean out of Times stories—the eight-page-long TimesDigest. (Test drive the June 8, 2007, edition of TimesDigest here.) .
Baseball Notes: Typo found in Bonds court papers
The mistake prompted at least one erroneous report that quickly was posted to Web sites around the country. Bonds had argued that the questions posed to him by prosecutors were ambiguous and confusing. He demanded that the five-count indictment charging him with lying to a grand jury be tossed out. Bonds has pleaded not guilty. In the filing, prosecutors said Bonds was specifically told before he began testifying in 2003 that he could consult with his lawyers or ask for a question rephrased if he ever got confused. "Bonds never said he was confused or asked the prosecutor to rephrase a question," the government's filing said. The matter will be the subject of a Feb. 29 hearing. Red Sox. Curt Schilling's 21st season is starting with a spring training unlike any of his others - with a long process of rehabilitating his shoulder after apparently patching up differences over the best way to treat it.
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