Baby Formula

Two men who paid for $40 worth of groceries at a Giant store in Annapolis displayed a gun to a cashier who tried to charge them for a case of baby formula Tuesday.According to the police report, the pair came through a check-out lane of the store, which is in the 2300 block of Forest Drive. They put several items on the counter that totaled about $40. As they were leaving, the clerk noticed a case of baby formula that cost about $56 on the bottom rack of their grocery cart.When he told the men that he had to charge them, one of them replied, "You don't have to do that," and lifted his jacket up, revealinga gun.The clerk did not argue with the pair, and they left the store,police said.

TEN DAYS AGO, he reported that allied POWs were praising the "peaceful people of Iraq." A week ago, he reported that allied bombs had destroyed a baby formula factory. And two days ago, he was summoned to an interview with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who took the opportunity to tell the world that God was on his side in the mother of all battles.With each dispatch, carried live on Cable News Network to 101 nations, Peter Arnett reinforces his role as the most controversial journalist assigned to cover the first war of the wired world.

WASHINGTON -- The White House and the Pentagon strongly denied a report from Iraq yesterday that allied warplanes had bombed a baby formula factory near Baghdad, saying that the targeted plant was actually a disguised facility for germ warfare."

WASHINGTON -- The federal government is investigating allegations of price fixing made against makers of baby formula used extensively by state programs.Infant formula is a key ingredient of the food packages given to low-income families under the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC. The program accounts for one-third of all sales of infant formula in the United States.When infant formula prices go up, the cost of a WIC food package increases, fewer people can be served and some people have to be removed from the rolls, "so there is real consumer injury," said Kevin J. Arquit, director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition.