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Author details dangers of industrial farming

This year's massive egg recall - which resulted in half a billion eggs being pulled from the nation's supermarkets after a salmonella outbreak - was a wake-up call to the dangers of factory farming. The contaminated eggs resulted in more than 1,600 reported cases of salmonella poisoning and renewed calls for stricter food safety regulations. More »

US apologizes for 1940s syphilis study in Guatemala

WASHINGTON - American scientists deliberately infected prisoners and patients in a mental hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over "such reprehensible research." More »

Libraries launch apps to sync with iPod generation

Libraries are tweeting, texting and launching smart-phone apps as they try to keep up with the biblio-techs - a computer-savvy class of people who consider card catalogs as vintage as typewriters. And they seem to be pulling it off. More »

One Nation March: D.C. rally shows support for struggling Democrats

WASHINGTON - Tapping into anger as the Tea Party movement has done, a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups marched Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial and pledged to support Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill. More »