This appears to be occuring in Canada, but you never know.

With Halloween fast approaching comes a warning to parents and kids regarding Sherwood brand Pirate's Gold milk chocolate coins imported from China.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to eat, distribute or sell the candy.

It is sold across Canada by Costco and may also have been sold in bulk packages or as individual pieces at various dollar and bulk stores.

The chocolate contains melamine which is the same chemical responsible for killing several babies in China, and sickening thousands more.

read more: http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/coins.asp

I found this interesting article about artificial sweetners, of course weve known for a while now that they are not good for you, because... umm... oh right.... they are artificial, hehe. So, ive been looking around for Beemans Chewing Gum and Adams Clove Gum, but it hasent been made for about 4 years. I even called them and told them to get to it.... make the gum! They said that it may come back for a short run in Fall 2008. We shall see.

http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-sweeteners.html

With that being said. I did find a natural ingredients gum called GleeGum that seems to be the gum that I am going to chew from now on. The spearmint flavor has the following ingredients.

CANE SUGAR, GLUCOSE, GUM BASE (CONTAINS NATURAL CHICLE), RICE SYRUP, SPEARMINT FLAVOR, GUM ARABIC, RESINOUS GLAZE, BEESWAX, CARNAUBA WAX AND CHLOROPHYLL.

He died on Friday, July 11, of natural causes at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, according to hospital officials. In a career that began more than 70 years ago, DeBakey performed more than 60000 heart surgeries.

read more: http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2008/07/14/daily1.html

It's the stuff of sci-fi and really crappy awesome horror films, but now it looks like regrowing damaged skin and limbs isn't so far-fetched -- in fact, it's already happening. A certain 69 year old Lee Spievak lost half an inch of finger to an agressive model plane blade, and doctors had little hope for the appendage. Lucky for Lee, his brother Alan works in the field of regenerative medicine, and sent him some powder (which lee calls "pixie dust") to apply to the finger. Four weeks later Lee had grown back the entire finger, as good as new. The pixie dust is actually modified cells scraped from the lining of a pig's bladder cleaned into a general-purpose tissue generator -- the cells basically tell the body to grow instead of scar. Doctors have high hopes for the cells, for everything from amputees to burn victims to cancer patients. We're just waiting until they can program these cells to grow that third arm we always wanted.