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China Starbucks switching to soymilk after contamination |
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Written by Stumo
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 |
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The industrial chemical melamine was first found in the baby formula of one Chinese company. Then 22 Chinese companies.
First 1,253 babies were sick. Then over 6,000.
First it was only baby formula. Now the melamine has been found in Chinese liquid milk and a frozen yogurt bar in Hong Kong.
UPDATE: Now the count is nearly 13,000 infants sickened.
AP photo from CNN website
Meanwhile, [President Hu Jintao] urged members of the Chinese Communist Party to “make self-improvement” during a speech at a party meeting in Beijing, according to Xinhua, the country’s official news agency. Mr. Hu said various work and food safety “accidents” this year “had indicated that some leaders lacked a sense of responsibility and had a loose governance.”
So... Starbucks in China has gone to soy milk in their coffee.
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The following article appeared on the online site for Manufacturing & Technology News on November 17, 2008 and was written by Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration.
By most accounts the U.S. economy is in serious trouble. Robert Reich, an adviser to President-elect Obama, calls it a "mini-depression," but that designation might be optimistic. Russian economist Mikhail Khazin says that the "U.S. will soon face a second Great Depression." It is possible that even Khazin is optimistic.
I cannot predict the future. However, I can explain what the problems are, how they differ from past times of troubles and why traditional remedies, such as the public works programs that Reich proposes, are unlikely to succeed in reviving the U.S. economy. |
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