Chinese Chicken Processors Are Cleared to Ship to U.S.

The Department of Agriculture on Friday approved four Chinese poultry processors to begin shipping a limited amount of meat to the United States, a move that is likely to add to the debate over food imports. Initially, the companies will be allowed...

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Well: Dress Up Your Salad With Grains

You can turn a simple salad into a hearty, texture-rich dish just by adding a few grains, writes Martha Rose Shulman in this week's Recipes for Health. When a grain is not the main ingredient in a salad you appreciate it for its texture and for the...

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The New Old Age Blog: In California, Renewed Debate Over Home Care

An important struggle over home health care is playing out in California, the nation's most populous state, including nearly five million residents age 65 and older. Unions and organizations representing the elderly have joined together to push for...

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Taylor Farms, Big Food Supplier, Grapples With Frequent Recalls

Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times A Taylor Farms vegetable processing plant in Yuma, Ariz., where shredded cabbage and carrots are mixed with lettuce. Taylor Farms, the large vegetable producer whose salad mix is being investigated in connection...

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What We Eat: Building a Better Mass-Market Tomato

David Manning for The New York Times Heirloom tomatoes grow in a greenhouse at the University of Florida.  GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Science is trying to build a better supermarket tomato. At a laboratory here at the University of Florida's Institute...

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N.F.L. Agrees to Settle Concussion Suit for $765 Million

The National Football League has agreed to pay $765 million to settle a lawsuit brought by more than 4,500 players and their families, largely closing the legal front in the league's battle against accusations that it concealed what it knew about the...

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Taylor Farms, Big Food Supplier, Grapples With Frequent Recalls

Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times A Taylor Farms vegetable processing plant in Yuma, Ariz., where shredded cabbage and carrots are mixed with lettuce. Taylor Farms, the large vegetable producer whose salad mix has been linked to hundreds of sickened...

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Advertising: E-Cigarette Makers’ Ads Echo Tobacco’s Heyday

Electronic cigarettes may be a creation of the early 21st century, but critics of the devices say manufacturers are increasingly borrowing marketing tactics that are more reminiscent of the heady days of tobacco in the mid-1900s. With American smokers...

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World Briefing | Asia: China: Police Search for Woman Accused of Gouging Out Boy’s Eyes

The police in northern China began a search Wednesday for a woman accused of gouging out the eyes of a 6-year-old boy. The authorities in the city of Linfen in Shanxi Province offered a $16,000 reward for the woman's capture. The police did not say if...

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Well: A Guide for Swimmers Breaking Boundaries

Lynne Cox has spent more than four decades swimming past the known limits of human capacity. Driven by an explorer's voracious desire to do what has never been done, and frankly obsessive about mental and physical preparation, she has completed scores...

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How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater

It is one of the most common components of emergency medicine: an intravenous bag of sterile saltwater. Luckily for anyone who has ever needed an IV bag to replenish lost fluids or to receive medication, it is also one of the least expensive. The...

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DealBook: Amgen Said to Be Near Deal to Buy Onyx for $10.5 Billion

Updated, Aug. 25, 7:38 p.m. | Amgen announced on Sunday that it has agreed to buy Onyx for $125 a share. Updated, 5:15 p.m. | Amgen is close to a deal to buy Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., a maker drugs to fight cancer, for about $10.5 billion, people...

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Well: Keeping Food-Borne Illnesses at Bay

Each year, one in six Americans becomes sick from eating contaminated food. But while outbreaks of food-borne illness linked to processing plants or imported products capture the public's attention and raise fears about the safety of the food supply,...

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Well: A Guide for Swimmers Breaking Boundaries

Lynne Cox has spent more than four decades swimming past the known limits of human capacity. Driven by an explorer's voracious desire to do what has never been done, and frankly obsessive about mental and physical preparation, she has completed scores...

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Economic View: Public Policies, Made to Fit People

I HAVE written here before about the potential gains to government from involving social and behavioral scientists in designing public policies. My enthusiasm comes in part from my experiences as an academic adviser to the Behavioral Insights Team...

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For a Chef, 41 Years in the Kitchen Takes Its Toll

Monica Almeida/The New York Times For Mark Peel, 58, the crazy hours and physical strain of life as a professional chef have meant wrist, shoulder and back pain, a bone spur and hernia operations. But he is aiming to age gracefully, with a less strenuous...

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DealBook: Amgen Said to Be Near Deal to Buy Onyx for $10.5 Billion

Updated, 5:15 p.m. | Amgen is close to a deal to buy Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., a maker drugs to fight cancer, for about $10.5 billion, people briefed on the matter said on Saturday. A deal — in which Amgen would pay about $125 a share — could be announced...

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Africa and Pakistan Face Polio Outbreaks, in Blow to Global Fight

The global effort to eradicate polio, a disease that has been on the brink of extinction for years, is facing serious setbacks on two continents. The virus is surging in Somalia and the Horn of Africa, which had been largely free of cases for several...

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Texas Tribune: Shortage of Doctors Tough to Fix

Texas lawmakers invested millions of additional dollars in the 2013 legislative session to address a looming physician shortage. Voters and university regents have rubber-stamped plans to open two new medical schools, in Austin and the Rio Grande Valley....

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