| Worried pet owners start cooking for their animals
That's been the reaction of many owners to the recalls recently of 95 pet-food brands manufactured by Canada-based Menu Foods. Initially, the Food and Drug Administration reported that at least 14 cats and dogs had died of kidney failure from ingesting the food, which New York State officials say was tainted with Aminopterin, a chemotherapy drug no longer used in the U.S. It is used as a rodenticide in China, the source of wheat gluten the company put in its foods. Some veterinarians expect that many more pets have been sickened by the contaminated food and will eventually die from it. Sixty million cans and packages of moist food have been yanked off store shelves - roughly 1 percent of the nation's pet-food inventory. Even if their animals haven't ingested any of the tainted food, the owners are panicking anew at this question: What will I feed my animal now? Christie Shaver of New York's Healthy Pet Gourmet (www.thpg.com), which makes custom fresh-food meals for dogs, has been deluged with calls from people who now are ready to fire up their stoves for Fido.
Eat To Live: Now, the low-carbon diet
Students and office workers, you'd better brush up your math skills. On top of counting calories, you can now calculate how much what you're eating is adding in carbon cost. It's a new take on "carbs," only this time we're talking the damage you may be doing not to your body but to the globe. In another possible confusion, Bon Appetit is the company behind it. And it's not the gourmet food magazine. It's a management company that runs cafeterias for corporations and university campuses, operating with the rubric, "Food services for a sustainable future." From May, Bon Appetit, which runs more than 400 cafes in 28 states, will be testing a "low carb diet" that will allow cafeteria diners to choose between, say, a banana that has reached the fruit bowl having been flown in from many greenhouse gas-creating miles away and a locally grown apple.
Baby fair offers a host of options for parents
The fourth-annual baby fair was jam-packed with expectant moms Saturday, as well as a few grandmas and even some soon-to-be dads. Lined up in the downstairs hallway, bellies and strollers vied for space at about two dozen information-stacked tables. .
Worst of the Week: Slums of Beverly Hills
And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We hope you enjoy it!
And without further ado:
So the intense competition between Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile recently was unleashed in Hollywood as both carriers threw bashes celebrating the launch of new devices. Sprint Nextel was pimping the Samsung UpStage at a private residence in Beverly Hills, while T-Mobile was touting its Sidekick iD at an unnamed location in the heart of Hollywood.
These events are nothing new for wireless carriers. Helio threw a similar bash when it launched service, and T-Mobile has a history of throwing a party everytime it launches a new version of the Sidekick, which seems to be weekly.
(B) Billionaire space tourist taking Martha Stewart-planned meal ...
SEATTLE Microsoft billionaire Charles Simonyi (sih-MOHN'-ee) plans to eat at least one good meal while he's on the international space station. The space tourist is taking a gourmet meal planned by his friend Martha Stewart with him on his trip. He says the crew plans to enjoy it on April 12th, Russia's Cosmonauts' Day. The menu was prepared by a French chef, and includes wine-roasted quail, duck breast and rice pudding. Simonyi is in final training for an April seventh launch with two Russians for an eleven-day stay on the space station. He's paying about 20 (m) million dollars to be the world's fifth space tourist. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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