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According to an article in The Washington Post, the FDA knew about various contamination problems that ultimately led to the deaths of at least three people:

The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people, sickened hundreds, and forced one of the biggest product recalls in U.S.

A lot of recent discussion has centered on music lyrics and the responsibility of artists and record companies to impressionable young people. Less attention has been given to the responsibility of parents to their children. How best can parents monitor their children's tastes in music?

A new ACT study points to a gap between what U.S. high schools are teaching in their core college preparatory courses and what colleges want incoming students to know in order for them to succeed in first-year courses:

College instructors take a dim view of the effectiveness of their state's learning standards.

As Major League Baseball celebrated the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier, a USA Today article questioned whether Robinson's legacy was fading:

The percentage of African-Americans in the majors has dropped sharply during the last decade and now is the lowest it has been since the 1960s — 8.3%, or 72 players on opening-day rosters, according to a USA TODAY study that includes injured players. The percentage of blacks in key front-office, managing and coach

Ever since the Virginia Tech shootings, people have been wondering what could have been done to prevent Seung-Hui Cho from going on his rampage. The New York Times reported that Cho had shown signs of having problems every since his youth:

From the beginning, he did not talk. Not to other children, not to his own family. Everyone saw this. In Seoul, South Korea, where Seung-Hui Cho grew up, his mother agonized over his sullen, brooding behavior and empty face.

Pay gaps are widening for college-educated women according to a study of Northwestern MBAs:

According to Paul Martorana, assistant professor of management at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, the mere presence of a career mentor does not consistently help women break through the glass ceiling when it comes to achieving pay equity and attaining executive roles. In their study, “The Persistent Gender Gap Among Protégés,” Martorana and his colleagues, Jeanne Brett of Northwestern U