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A Quebec teenager with a peanut allergy has died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier.

Court Denies Smucker's PB&J Pastry Patent By MALIA RULON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's only so far you can go in trying to patent the ever-popular peanut butter and jelly sandwich. On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected an effort by J.M. Smucker Co. to patent its process for making pocket-size peanut butter and jelly pastries called "Uncrustables." Smucker's peanut butter and jelly pockets are enclosed without a crust using a crimping method that the Orrville, Ohio, company says is one of a kind and should be protected from duplication by federal law....

July 18, 2004 Hourly Pay in U.S. Not Keeping Pace With Price Rises By EDUARDO PORTER he amount of money workers receive in their paychecks is failing to keep up with inflation. Though wages should recover if businesses continue to hire, three years of job losses have left a large worker surplus. "There's too much slack in the labor market to generate any pressure on wage growth,'' said Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research institution based in Washington. "We are going to need a much lower unemployment rate.'' He noted that at 5.6 percent,...

Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack ... This familiar line from the baseball anthem "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" doesn't have the same happy meaning for Timothy Haverkamp that it does for most fans. Timothy, a first-grader from Ada Elementary, is allergic to peanuts. "He was allergic to everything when he was little. His brother is allergic to peanuts, too," Jane Haverkamp, Timothy's mother, said. "He never had a life-threatening emergency with peanuts, but we don't keep any at home." Timothy attended Wednesday's West Michigan Whitecaps game without fear of an attack. The team hosted its second...

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Some of the guys and I are presently at the camping lodge and we’ve got a problem that requires the help of a sensible woman. My brother-in-law managed to get something in his hair this morning, and he wanted to wash it out. I can’t tell you what that something was, because he’s refused to divulge that to us thus far (I suspect that he fabricated the “tainted hair” theory to save himself some embarrassment.) My brother-in-law believes that his wife has, at some point, told him that peanut butter is a useful household hair cleaner / conditioner. His wife...

An elementary school's reaction to one student's allergy to peanuts has parents complaining about "Nazi-like" peanut police searching their children's backpacks. Angry parents packed a parent-teacher meeting last night at Valle Verde Elementary School in Walnut Creek, Calif., to protest the school's new "peanut reduction policy." Under the policy, kindergarten classrooms and a special playground area have been designated "peanut- and tree nut-free zones." Students and visitors are required to wash their hands. Backpacks and lunch boxes are searched and peanut products are confiscated. The policy is in response to lobbying by parent Leora Cope, whose 5-year-old son's allergy is...

<p>An East Bay elementary school's ban on peanut butter sandwiches and other nut products in its kindergarten classes has some parents questioning whether school district administrators overreacted to concerns for one allergic child.</p> <p>At the center of the storm is a 5-year-old boy enrolled at Valle Verde Elementary School in Walnut Creek. He suffers from "peanut and tree nut" allergies that his mother says are life-threatening.</p>

NORWALK, Iowa -- Peanut butter is off the menu at a central Iowa elementary school. &nbsp; School officials at Oviatt Elementary School in Norwalk are also asking parents to keep peanut products out of lunch sacks. &nbsp; The move comes after the parents of one student asked that peanut butter be removed from the menu because their child is allergic to peanuts and could have a life-threatening reaction. &nbsp; School officials said medical experts have concluded that even peanut oil on the child's skin or the aroma of peanuts could trigger a serious reaction. &nbsp; Principal Tom McLaughlin said ...

MANILA -- Craving for peanut butter and bread proved the undoing of Abu Sayyaf rebels when Philippine troops finally pounced on them after a year-long search, a Manila newspaper said Monday. The 376-day crisis ended in a firefight on the Zamboanga Peninsula on Friday, after thousands of troops had scoured heavily-jungled southern Basilan Island in vain for more than 12 months. U.S. Missionary Martin Burnham and Filipina nurse were killed in the battle and Burnham's wife Gracia was rescued, AFP reported. "We were able to determine the presence of the Abu Sayyaf when a resident here saw a neighbor bringing...

The irony of being human: deep down we're still animalsJoshua GreeneSyndicated ColumnistWhat would it be like to strap on explosives and pull the ripcord? Explosives are different than parachutes. Sky jumpers say that a minute of free fall, that bit of pure acceleration, that sheer sensory overload, is a whole lot longer than a minute.  Think about how fast you'd be moving and how slow it would feel if you donned a dozen sticks of TNT, walked into a night club and exploded. To be honest with you, I don't like this fad. There are  too many people doing it...