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Celebrity Permanent Makeup Artist Slams Claim "Michael Jackson Didn't Want to be Black"

Sandi Hammons, celebrity permanent makeup artist and her company, Premier Pigments, the manufacturer of the permanent makeup worn by the late Michael Jackson, are speaking out against widespread assertions that "Michael Jackson didn't want to be black." Arling...

Leahy Slams 'Midnight' Bid to Relax Mercury-in-Fish Warnings to Women and Children

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- [The Washington Post Friday reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the White House are considering easing the official advisory cautioning women and children about mercury in certain fish. Scientists at the Environmental Prote...

NO on Prop 8 Campaign Slams Dishonest Mailer Targeting African-American Voters

Mailer Misrepresents Sen. Obama Who is Opposed to Proposition 8; Misleading African-American Voters is Clearly the Goal of Deceptive Prop 8 Campaign SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The NO on Prop 8 campaign today condemned an official Proposition 8 mailer clearly targeted to Africa...

Report Slams U.S. Food Safety System

Overhaul of outdated inspection practices desperately needed, critics say WEDNESDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) -- The current system that guarantees the safety of food in the United States is in a state of crisis, a new report finds. Gaps in the food safety system include out-of-da...

Merced Firm Slams Slaughterhouse for Contaminated Meat

Children in St Helena and Calistoga fell sick after eating hamburgers. These hamburger patties were distributed by the food company Merced. The firm recalled all the patties from// the market and has put the blame on the slaughter house that has processed the meat. The meat has been infected ...

Twiggy Slams Ultra Thin Actresses

Model Twiggy says Hollywood actresses are the true influencers of the "ultra thin" trend and not models//. According to contactmusic.com, Twiggy says thin actresses go on extreme diets to be thin and they are the ones causing eating disorders among fans. She wants to see more curvaceous actre...

Health Minister Slams State Health Governments

Health Minister Tony Abbott yesterday accused the commonwealth of bankrolling public hospitals but having no control over how the public money was spent.// He attacked state governments calling them "institutionalised beggars" and blame-shifters who should be able to fund public hospitals usin...

WHO Praises Singapore and Vietnam but Slams China With Respect To Tackling SARS

World Heath Organization (WHO) has praised the way in which the two countries Singapore and Vietnam, has tackled the issue of SARS but criticized china.// China threatened the rest of the world by withholding information and denying the disease outbreak in the critical early months. In its book...

Archbishop Slams Attempt to Legalize Abortion In Jamaica

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston Lawrence Burke has come down heavily on Jamaica's attempts to legalize abortions. The Jamaican government had called for // consultations on the matter and the consultation period if nearing its end. It is thought that there will be certain liberal stan...

Corporate Accountability International: Tobacco Giant Leads in Profits, Addicting Youth

...s like the global tobacco treaty," said Kathy Mulvey, International Policy Director for Corporate Accountability International. "But the treaty itself slams the door on such interference, and now that explicit safeguards are spelled out to help countries resist industry tactics, the question remains, 'will...

Slams in Biological News

Researchers create freestanding nanoparticle films without fillers

...e polymer layer to free the nanoparticle film. According to the researchers, films made in this fashion stick together because the electrical field slams the nanoparticles into the film with sufficient force to pack the particles together tightly enough to allow naturally attractive inter-particle force...

Slams in Biological Technology

UW Condor project is a piece of CERN's massive grid computer

...ing the Condor project's scheduling software. The mass amounts of data that need to be processed are coming from the Large Hadron Collider , which slams beams of charged particles protons and ions into each other after accelerating them to close to the speed of light. The collisions produce an estima...