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How Aspartame Became Legal – The Timeline

Sunday, February 22, 2009

From Rich Murray – rmforall@att.net
12-24-02
From Norfolk Genetic Information Network (Taken from Welcome to the Spin Machine by Michael Manville http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2001/04/biotech/ http://www.freezerbox.com/ )
In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto [...]

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Using software to model death row outcomes

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

27 April 2005 | Christian Science Monitor
by Susan Llewelyn Leach
Convicts on death row can wait for years while appeals are filed and protests lodged. Many never get beyond this limbo. Others are executed.
What determines the final outcome? That is the question two professors, one a criminologist, the other a computer scientist, asked as they took [...]

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Internet Security Expert: “To keep on using [Microsoft's] IE is like playing the lottery”

Monday, July 5, 2004

Microsoft’s browser dominance at risk as experts warn of security holes
5 July 2004 | Independent [London]
by Charles Arthur, Technology Editor
Its curved blue “e” sits on almost every computer desktop in the world, but the global dominance of Microsoft’s web browser could soon be over following a stark security warning from a senior panel of internet [...]

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Check out payphone-project.com

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Hello, Pay Phone Information? Enthusiast Provides the Answer
May 13, 2004 | New York Times
by IAN URBINA
It started as an art project. Blue spiral notebook in hand, Mark Thomas spent afternoons walking the streets of Manhattan, compiling the numbers and locations of public pay phones. He posted them on his Web site in the hope that [...]

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