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Federal poultry regulations relaxed in spending law
Farming advocates are pressing Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski to reverse a little-noticed measure approved by Congress last month that rescinded tough new rules on the poultry industry — a move that has strained the already rocky relationship between mom-...
Tags: Perdue Farms, Laws, Litigation and Regulation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Livestock Farming
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Finalists named in Maryland's startup contest
Maryland's competition for startup companies — with three grand prizes of $100,000 each — was narrowed to nine finalists Monday. The companies, based largely in Baltimore and Montgomery County, were part of an original field of nearly 260...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Manufacturing and Engineering, Instrument Engineering
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Mikulski says she doesn't support 'Monsanto rider' in funding bill
Food safety groups are ramping up pressure on Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski over language included in a government funding bill that would make it harder for courts to block the planting of genetically engineered crops. The language, tucked into...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Jon Tester, Food Industry, Barbara A. Mikulski, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Getting educated on GMOs
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post to The Baltimore Sun's health blog Picture of Health (baltimoresun.com/pictureofhealth), which is printed here. This week, Karen Kolowski weighs in on...Tags: Allergies, Environmental Politics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Chemical Industry, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Commentary: Come wind or high water, I'll worry when it's zombies
Originally, my plan was to write about one kind of security, namely password security which I'm convinced is a plot by computer people to make the rest of us feel stupid. Each password needs to have between eight and 10 characters, with at least one...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), The Weather Channel (tv network), Tropical Storms, Weather Reports
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Dan Deacon's split personalities share 'America'
Dan Deacon is obsessed with apocalypse. From a dilapidated couch in his Station North practice space, the city's best-known electronic musician and composer quickly rattles off a list: the United States' "growing military stronghold," drone warfare,...
Tags: Arab Spring, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Carnegie Hall, Occupy Wall Street, Herring
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Repairing aquaculture's Achilles' heel
As fish farming grows to feed a world hungry for protein, there's a hitch — the seas are being scoured of the little wild fish to feed the big captive ones destined for the dinner table. Researchers in Baltimore think they may have hit upon a...
Tags: Recipes, Vegetarian Diet, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Politics, Aquaculture
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Aug. 22: Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is obsessed with the apocalypse. From a dilapidated couch in his Station North practice space, the city's most well known electronic musician and composer quickly rattles off grim crises: the United States' "growing military stronghold," drone...Tags: Arab Spring, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Carnegie Hall, Baltimore County, Herring
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Who will make sure genetically modified foods are safe to eat?
I was startled by University of Maryland nutritionist Karen Kolowski's recent article about genetically modified foods ("Educate yourself on genetically modified food," Aug. 8). While it is true that such foods don't occur in nature and that their...Tags: Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Allergies, Conservation
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Controversy, too, is harvest of White House garden
It was while she was serving dinner to her kids in 2008 and their dad was out campaigning for president, that Michelle Obama hatched a modest daydream: a vegetable garden on the White House grounds.
She'd recently had a conversation with her children's...Tags: Zucchini, Diabetes, Family, The Biggest Loser (tv program), Government
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Researcher hunts for sickle cell anemia cure with gene targeting, stem cells
Halfway around the world in India, Sivaprakash Ramalingam had heard of Johns Hopkins researchers using a promising new technique for gene therapy that he hoped to integrate with stem cells to cure diseases.
After getting a doctorate in biochemistry in...Tags: Blood Disorders, Sickle Cell Disease, Biotechnology, Biotechnology Industry, Medical Research
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SpaceX flight carries Md. student project, but it never activates
Whatever goes up must come down — just not always in the condition one hoped. That's the lesson Paul Warren, the 16-year-old from Maryland whose science experiment was launched into space in May, learned Friday when the materials of his project &#...
Tags: Nottingham, Physiology, Space Programs, Air Transportation Industry, NASA
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