Three days ago I received an e-mail from the conference organizers apologizing the last-minute changes in the schedule; they sounded genuinely embarrassed at the disorder in their planning.
On our cycling tour we managed to cover an average （1）of about 25 kilometers（2） day.
Over the past few years, outcries from food activists have changed many Americans' eating habits: Criticism of widespread pesticide use led many consumers to organic foods, and early warnings prompted shoppers to shun irradiated and genetically altered food. （1） Major players have muscled laws through state legislatures. The statutes make it illegal to suggest that a particular food is unsafe without a “sound scientific basis” for the claim. These so-called banana bills are under discussion in several US states.Banana bill backers believe the laws will protect agricultural producers from losses like those following the Alar scare in 1989, when the TV magazine show 60 Minutes publicized a Natural Resources Defense Council report charging that the chemical, which enhances the appearance of apples, causes cancer.（2 ） Banana bill foes say the laws simply serve to repress those who speak out against risky food-produce with “acceptable” levels of pesticides, genetically altered tomatoes, milk from cows injected with the growth hormone rBST, which boosts milk production. （3 ） They call them an insult to free speech and an impediment to covering critical food safety issues, notes Nicols Fox in American Journalism Review (March 1995). Most critics question the laws' requirement that only charges based on “reasonable and reliable” evidence be allowed. （4） After all, it's unlikely that agribusinesses will accept even the best evidence if it threatens their bottom line. Fox notes that even though the Environmental Protection Agency affirmed that Alar posed unacceptable health risks, Washington State Farm Bureau spokesperson Peter Stemberg insists that EPA's science is “subject to second opinion.” —opinions that challenged accepted wisdom.Instead of attacking what they sneer as “junk science”, food producers should be listening to the public's food worries, says Sierra's Rauber, who cites a recent Young &
We all buy things on the （ ） of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse buy”.
John has a great voice, but with that cold he won't （ ）very good if he tries to sing.
Thanks to some help from professors at the university in Canberra，the Australian authorities are letting me to bring my biological samples into the country without the usual three-week quarantine.
