Daily Archive: June 18, 2004

Based on a little-noticed change to obscure federal rules, the USDA [now] defines frozen french fries as “fresh vegetables” … The USDA quietly changed the regulations last year at the behest of the french...

Since March, Ukraine’s defence minister, Yevhen Marchuk, has been searching for missing missiles and other weapons that could have fallen into terrorist hands or been sold to rogue states … Marchuk has complained that...

President Bush has spent seven of every $10 he has raised for his re-election campaign, more than half of it on television ads, and is asking supporters for even more money. The Bush campaign...

I was involved in a discussion about the evolution of language on Metafilter. Someone disputed something I wrote concerning that possibly language was an unintended byproduct of undirected human evolution. Perhaps a kink in...