From the Winona Daily News, By David Krotz
Don't look now, but lawns are beginning to disappear. They are being devoured, one chunk at a time, as perennial beds and native trees take bites out of the edges of turf.
China's Ministry of Commerce issued a foreign market access report recently which summed up the trade and investment environment within Chinese companies in China's 22 major trade partners in 2004. The report showed the ministry's concern on trade barriers in some foreign markets. Trade with the United States took up the largest section of the 182-page report with 22 pages dedicated to it.
Imagine a world without penicillin or the legion of other antibiotics that have followed.
Imagine the toll that simple infections like strep would take. Most people alive today don't remember back to the first half of the last century, when people lived in fear of bacterial infections.
From the Duluth News Tribune, By John Myers
Plans to regulate Great Lakes water diversions have been rewritten to strengthen a 2004 proposal, prohibiting water from leaving the region altogether.
A coalition of public health and environmental groups on Thursday called on the Food and Drug Administration to ban seven classes of antibiotics from animal feed, saying their widespread use was contributing to antibiotic resistance among humans.
A coalition of public health and environmental advocates petitioned the Food and Drug Administration yesterday to ban the use of seven classes of antibiotics commonly used on farms to speed the growth of livestock.
On Capitol Hill, Sens. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) reintroduced a bill that would require the same thing.
