President Bush yesterday said he will push for the republic of Georgia to be admitted to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at the group's summit in Romania next month, after meeting with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili at the White House.
'Hostile propaganda'
Real threats to public health Despite years of promotion by biotechnology cheerleaders such as Henry Miller ("Gore vs. the environment," Commentary, Saturday), consumers are justifiably wary of milk produced with the artificial growth hormone recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST. Bovine somatotropin (bST) is a protein hormone that occurs naturally in cows. rBST is the genetically modified version used to increase milk production. Proponents of rBST claim that it is indistinguishable from the naturally occurring hormone, but the United States is the only industrialized country to approve rBST. Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the European Union outlawed the artificial hormone due to unanswered questions about links to breast, colon and prostate cancer, as well as increased rates of infections in cows.
Real threats to public health Despite years of promotion by biotechnology cheerleaders such as Henry Miller ("Gore vs. the environment," Commentary, Saturday), consumers are justifiably wary of milk produced with the artificial growth hormone recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST. Bovine somatotropin (bST) is a protein hormone that occurs naturally in cows. rBST is the genetically modified version used to increase milk production. Proponents of rBST claim that it is indistinguishable from the naturally occurring hormone, but the United States is the only industrialized country to approve rBST. Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the European Union outlawed the artificial hormone due to unanswered questions about links to breast, colon and prostate cancer, as well as increased rates of infections in cows.
Name game blame
Name game blame
U.S. taxpayers send tens of millions of dollars in foreign aid to the Republic of Liberia, yet the West African nation owes the D.C. government back taxes on its 16th Street embassy property in Northwest, city records show.
Brownfield gone
At the forthcoming summit, among other issues, Presidents Bush and Putin will face the problem of independence for the Serbian province Kosovo.
