The real drama in movie theaters these days isn’t happening on screen. It’s at the concession stand. When moviegoers plunk down the bucks for snacks at the nation’s theaters they may be putting themselves at greater risk than any character in the ...Read More
Recent tests of canned food by Consumer Reports, a consumer testing organization, found that most of the 19 brand-name foods it examined contained some bisphenol A or BPA. It tested soups, juice, tuna, and green beans. The Food and Drug Administration ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - A consumer advocacy group's analysis of canned goods has found measurable levels of the chemical additive bisphenol A, or BPA, across a range of foods, including some that were labeled "BPA free." Children eating multiple servings of ...Read More
Outrage is brewing on Main Street at word that the Wall Street fat cats bailed out by taxpayers just a year ago are raking in $140 billion, even as average Americans lose jobs and struggle with soaring health-care costs, stagnant ...Read More
Sen. Tom Harkin, leader of the powerful Senate Health Committee, said Friday that vast differences in Medicare costs -- as those that exist between the high-cost Miami and lower-cost areas -- must be ended to make for sensible healthcare reform. ``These ...Read More
NEW YORK — American Express Co. said Monday its president, Alfred F. Kelly Jr., will step down early next year. Kelly, 51, wants to run a company as a chief executive, a position that is unlikely to come open anytime soon ...Read More
(Adds detail, comments from BT and a consumer group.) BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--The European Parliament Wednesday voted against a deal that would have ushered in a major overhaul of European telecommunications rules, a parliamentary spokesman said Wednesday. The reform deal, which was previously ...Read More
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