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By Jeff Zrebiec | May 14, 2009
The Orioles started Wednesday night's game with only a two-man bench, but with the way center fielder Adam Jones has been swinging the bat, that appeared to be only a minor inconvenience. However, Jones, one player the Orioles simply can't afford to lose, joined the sick and the wounded when a mild right hamstring strain forced him out of the lineup in the fourth inning, and prompted the club to call up top outfield prospect Nolan Reimold for Thursday night's game. Without Jones, the Orioles' offense accomplished very little until a ninth-inning rally came up two runs short.
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By Jonathan Kirsch | May 3, 2009
Ruth Reichl is a commanding and daunting figure in American culture. Beginning in the 1970s, she played a key role in revolutionizing food and restaurant journalism, wielded make-or-break influence as a restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times and later The New York Times, and continues to loom large as editor in chief of Gourmet magazine. With her fourth book, Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way, however, Reichl looks backward and inward in an attempt to understand and explain her mother, both to herself and to us. At barely 100 pages, Not Becoming My Mother is a meditation rather than a memoir but is no less affecting for its brevity.
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April 13, 2009
Produce-linked food poisonings on the rise Americans didn't suffer more food poisoning last year despite high-profile outbreaks involving peppers, peanut butter and other foods, according to a new government report. Rates of food-borne illnesses have been holding steady for four years. They had been declining from the mid-1990s until the beginning of this decade, mainly because of improvements in the meat and poultry industry, some experts say. But produce-associated food poisonings have been increasing, and the nation is no longer making progress against food-borne disease rates, said Elliot Ryser, a professor of food science at Michigan State University.
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By Michelle Deal-Zimmerman | June 28, 2007
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 76 million cases of food-borne illness occur each year in the United States. Summer is the time when the likelihood of food poisoning increases. More people are picnicking, barbecuing and enjoying the warm weather. But the heat isn't good for some foods, especially salads and meats. Best advice from Dr. Carolyn O'Connor: Cool it down. What causes food poisoning? Food poisoning is caused by bacteria or toxins in contaminated food.
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By McClatchy-Tribune | April 29, 2007
ZHENGZHOU, China -- A few days ago, an alarmed teacher at a day care center in this city south of Beijing called emergency services when some of her charges began to vomit. Ambulances rushed to Xinxin Day Care, and doctors later treated about 50 youngsters. The culprit was tainted soy milk, but it was nothing dire, and the children were home by dusk. However, the way in which local authorities handled the case - by suppressing the news - added to the parents' anguish and the concerns about the safety of food processing in China.
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By Heather A. Dinich | December 27, 2006
ORLANDO, Fla. -- He couldn't remember exactly what he ordered for dinner Friday night, but it's probably best that Maryland cornerback Josh Wilson forgets it. Whatever it was led to food poisoning and a temperature of 101 degrees. Wilson missed one practice this past weekend in preparation for Friday's 8 p.m. game against Purdue in the Champs Sports Bowl. Wilson did say he ordered meat - "any and every kind of meat you could think of" - at an Orlando restaurant. "I got the works, and it went to work on my stomach," he said.
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By Doug Smith and Zeena Kareem | October 10, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Several hundred Iraqi police recruits were being treated yesterday in an outbreak of severe food poisoning that triggered a mutinous episode in southern Iraq, and the capital was shaken by the assassination of the vice president's brother. Officials in Numaniyah, about 75 miles southeast of Baghdad, said disorder broke out at a military base yesterday, the day after the recruits became ill. Angry recruits stoned the car of their commander. Authorities said they had not yet established that the food poisoning, which broke out Sunday evening, was intentional.
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By Barbara Anderson | September 27, 2006
Consumers worried about contaminated spinach from California's Salinas Valley may have a threat closer to home: bacteria breeding in their kitchen sink. We live in a germ-filled world. Millions of microbes live in kitchens, setting up house on kitchen counters, cutting boards, stove tops and tabletops. More than 250 different food-borne diseases have been identified, and E. coli, salmonella and campylobacter are only three of the most common bacteria that cause infections. E. coli bacteria have been found in spinach and associated with at least one death (and, in Maryland, another death is suspected to be linked)
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By DAN CONNOLLY | July 23, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Even in a humiliating late July blowout loss to the basement-dwelling Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the Orioles can glean key baseball lessons. Orioles rookie Adam Loewen, for instance, learned Friday night that he needs to keep hitters guessing the second time through the order. Scratched starter Erik Bedard learned he shouldn't eat raw fish the night before he pitches. And the Orioles' front office may have learned the most important lesson of all. When a National League team in a pennant race cuts a pitcher and is willing to eat the remaining $22 million on his contract just so he won't set foot on its mound again, chances are he's not going to be much help in the American League East.
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By DAN CONNOLLY | July 22, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- During the past few weeks, Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons sprinted, cut on turf and did everything he could to "blow out" his injured right knee. It didn't blow out, so he's ready to play again. "I feel like I did as much as I can," Gibbons said, "and the next step is getting on the field and see how it feels." Gibbons, who has played in just two games since first tearing his posterior cruciate ligament when he ran into a wall May 26, took batting practice here yesterday.