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Food Engineering June 4, 2007	Regulatory Watch Milk from cloned cows... What's up with biofuels?...
Food Engineering June 4, 2007	Congress to beef up inspection activities With one food recall after another making headlines, Congress appears intent on beefing up federal government food inspection activities.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2007 Clinton & Wechsler	The View From Inside Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach on drug safety, DTC advertising, FDA's culture, and how the agency plans to bring itself into the age of molecular medicine.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2007 Jill Wechsler	Washington Report: Shop and Compare Insurers and payers believe that more comparative information on medical treatments will save money and improve care, but such analysis may be costly to pharma.
Reason June 2007 David Weigel	Farmer in the Cell After a crackdown on illegal immigration, farmers in the rural area outside Pueblo, Colorado, found they lacked the labor to help them plant and harvest crops. One answer is to use prison inmates.
Reason June 2007 Jeff Taylor	Letters of the Law A report from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine confirmed what many critics of the PATRIOT Act had long suspected: Under the law, warrantless searches and seizures have skyrocketed, especially via the FBI's national security letters.
Reason June 2007 Jacob Sullum	'No Fly' No Go In 2010, nearly a decade after the 9/11 attacks brought home the importance of keeping suspicious characters off airplanes, the TSA hopes to launch a new system for distinguishing between harmless passengers and terrorists. If all goes well.
Reason June 2007 Brian Doherty	Banned From Canada In the post-9/11 age of heightened security and improved data collection, crossing the U.S.-Canada border is no longer a cakewalk.
Reason June 2007 David Weigel	Free the CRS! Government transparency: Data searches are free to members of Congress, but for the rest of the country's taxpayers, who paid for the research, they're not.
Reason June 2007 Jacob Sullum	Data The Big Apple Bite: New York is the most heavily taxed of the nine U.S. cities with populations exceeding 1 million.
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