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The Occupy Wall Street movement is now nearing the one-month mark and it's showing no signs of retreat. At first it wasn't exactly clear what the protesters wanted--Guardian columnist Jason Farago calls the movement its own "raison d'etre"--but one message has been pretty consistent: "End corporate greed."Using a slogan of "We are the 99 percent," an Occupy Wall Street member, Lloyd Hart, posted a list of 13 long-awaited demands on the group's website. White the loosely organized group's General Assembly has noted that the demands were never officially approved, they've nonetheless received …
With the dangers of bisphenol A (BPA) exposure becoming increasingly evident to American consumers, a recent report issued by the Breast Cancer Fund is a major cause for concern, especially for parents. We've all seen more and more products, from sippy cups and infant toys to water bottles, labeled as free of BPA, but one product where the chemical has been found to be ever-present is in canned food marketed to kids. The Breast Cancer Fund is a non-profit dedicated to identifying and raising awareness about environmental exposures to chemicals that have been shown to cause cancer and other …

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