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Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It’s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies to the tune of six pounds per American per year . That’s a lot of estrogen. More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in ...
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... taxable income. The administration’s answer is the stimulus, whose iffy results so far, it argues, can’t be judged this early on. Fair enough. But a year from now the public will register its verdict in any event. Meanwhile, both parties have their own delusions, not the least of which is the Republicans’ conviction that Tuesday was a referendum on what Obama has done so far. If anything, it was a judgment on just how much he has not. Nicholas Kristof: On BPA in food and the need to be cautious. Robert ...
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... Nick Kristof has been columning recently on food and health issues. Today he has a terrific column on the perils of BPA, which has been found not only in food/water containers but in food itself: ...
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