Archive for September 7th, 2007
Is Coke poisoning Mexicans?
4:46 pm By Maegan La Mala · Health|Marketing|mexico · Comments Off
7 Sep 2007
That’s what some Mexican consumer rights groups are saying. Coca-Cola is using a potentially carcinogenic — and banned in the U.S. since the late 60s — sweetener for its Coca-Cola Zero product in Mexico.
Sodium cyclamate, which is 30 times sweeter than sucrose and prized because it lacks a strong aftertaste, was outlawed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 38 years ago over cancer concerns. It was legalized in Mexico last year, shortly before Coca-Cola launched the Mexican version of Coca-Cola Zero, the soda giant’s latest diet drink.Mp>Recent U.S. and European studies have downplayed sodium cyclamate’s role as a carcinogen and suggested that it is safe in low doses. The sweetener is now legal in more than 50 countries, including Canada and the European Union nations.
First it Was The wives: Now Immigrant Vets’ Parents Face Deportation
12:48 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Politics · 3 Comments
7 Sep 2007Earlier this summer, I wrote about how the wife of a U.S. soldier in Iraq faced deportation. Not satisfied with going after the significant others of those who have risked their lives (and sometimes lost) in Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security is now targeting undocumented parents of Iraq war vets.
Three years after U.S. Army Private Armando Soriano, 20, died fighting in Haditha, Iraq, his father is facing deportation. Soriano is now buried in Houston, Tex., his hometown, where his parents, undocumented workers from Mexico, are currently living.
What’s even sadder about this story is that Soriano was able to get a green card for his mother, but not his father. So not only did the couple lose a son, now they may lose each other. Should there be some special consideration for families of vets?
Brazilian actress becomes English “Lady”
12:35 pm By Maegan La Mala · Brazil|Celebrities|Chismes|World · Comments Off
7 Sep 2007
A Brazilian actress named Daniela Barbosa de Carneiro is now British nobility, since she just married film legend and Oscar winner Ben Kingsley, a knight. People reports:
Kingsley, 63, and Barbosa, 34, who have been together since February 2006, marked their wedding with a private reception for friends and family members in the garden of their home in Oxfordshire, England.The 1982 Gandhi Best Actor called the festivities “blissfully private and beautiful. … We had a lovely lunch on the lawn. It was very simple and very happy.”
As the daughter of a woman working in the fashion industry, fashion magazines and the latest styles were always in my presence. Even if I didn’t like the consumerist spin fashion often forces down our throats or just really couldn’t afford the time, money, and effort it took to look like I stepped off one of those pages, fashion has been a secret dirty pleasure. Now Colombiana Elle Fashion Director Nina Garcia, judge from the hit Bravo Network show Project Runway, brings readers her tips on how to be fabulosa via her book, The Little Black Book of Style.
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