Food giants push prepackaged beef to replace butchers
Major meatpackers and grocers push brand name prepackaged beef to cut labor costs and boost profits. Wal Mart adopts Thomas E Wilson beef while Tyson/BP IBP merge signals shift toward case ready meat, reducing need for in-store cutters and aiming for easier traceability.
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Washington
Kellogg's
Campbell's
Christine McCracken
Midwest Research
Gene Leman
IBP Inc
Thomas F. Wilson
Wal-Mart
Thomas E. Wilson
Food Marketing Institute
McCracken
United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Gary O’brien
Dorothy Lane
Cincinnati
Jessica Mouser
IBP
IBF
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Nashville
Tenn
University of Missouri
Gary Brown
Families seek apology from U.S. sub commander after collision
Japanese families bereaved by the February collision between the USS Greeneville and the Ehime Maru press for Cmdr Scott Waddle to visit Uwajima and apologize. They frame the request as a clash of US and Japanese approaches to fault, while U.S. officials urge restraint.
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Tokyo
Japan
Cmdr
Scott Waddle
United States
U.S
Moriyuki Kato
Ehime Prefecture
Greeneville
Hawaii
Washington
Bush
Colin Powell
Donald Rumsfeld
Thomas Foley
Akihito
Michiko
Imperial Palace
Foley
Waddle
Shizue Aoki
Uwajima
Kazuhiko
Koshikawa
German pilot claims earlier sound barrier break
Berlin authorities report Hans Guido Mutke, a former Luftwaffe pilot, says he exceeded Mach 1 in a Me 262 on April 9, 1945 over Austria but lacks verification. Mutke, now 79 and a retired doctor, seeks computer simulations by Otto Wagner to support the claim, while computer results remain inconclusive.
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Berlin
Chuck Yeager
Austria
Hans Guido Mutke
U.S
Mutke
Munich
Otto Wagner
Technical University
Magnesium boron compound could boost future supercomputers
Two labs report a magnesium boron compound becomes superconducting near minus 389 degrees, warmer than prior simple metals. Akimitsu and Canfield teams flag potential for faster superconducting electronics, while experts caution practical use remains uncertain and oxygen-containing materials still lead in high temperature superconductivity.
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Cava
John Rowell
Northwestern University
Ted Geballe
Stanford University
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National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
Avww.beef.org
American Meat Institute
Yeager
Rogers Dry Lake
California
Carolyn Elder
Craig, Dengel
Jon Wiggins
Simply Wireless
STE Fey
Rau Em Lupe As
Rau Meeml
Simpl Wireless
Lawrence, KS
Ween Blockbuster
Pizza Hut
Mase
Lawrence
Maine
Ottawa
12Th Avenue
Emporia
Malcolm Ritter
AP Science
Nature
Jun Akimitsu
Aoyama-Gakuin University
Physical Review Letters
Paul Canfield
Ames Laboratory
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Iowa State University
Canfield
Akimitsu
Robert Cava
Princeton University
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