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The city health department unveiled a proposal that would prohibit cooks at New York City's 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain artificial trans fatty acids. The artery-clogging fats, which are commonly listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated oil, are present in some shortenings , margarine, and frying oils and are found in foods like french fries and doughnuts. In Chicago, a similar proposed ban on trans fats has been protested by some who see it as unnecessary government meddling.

DEFINITION: (noun) A heap of combustibles for burning a corpse as a funeral rite. SYNONYMS: funeral pyre. USAGE: Hunt caused a huge pyre of pinewood to be made, which soon sent up a great column of flame that might be seen far and wide over the prairies.

Clemenceau was a French journalist and statesman whose politics brought him into conflict with Napoleon III's government. After several years spent in the US, he returned to France and became mayor of Montmartre following Napoleon III's dethronement. In 1880, he began publishing La Justice, which became the primary organ of Parisian radicalism. His L'Aurore carried Zola's famous "J'accuse" on its front page. He served as premier during WWI and was a key architect of what treaty?

Palestinians consider the al-Aqsa Intifada (2000-present) a war of national liberation against foreign occupation, whereas Israelis consider it a terrorist campaign. The intifada has also been called the "Oslo War" by those who consider the violence a result of concessions made by Israel following the Oslo Accords, and "Arafat's War," after the late Palestinian leader whom many Israelis blame for starting it. What was the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit of 2005?

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Campbell's is the most well-known producer of canned soups in the US and sells products in 120 other countries. In 1994, consumers purchased almost 2.5 billion cans of its soup, favoring the Chicken Noodle, Cream of Mushroom, and Tomato varieties. In the 1960s, the red-and-white soup can became fodder for Andy Warhol, the pop counter-culture artist, in his famous series of iconoclastic images. The can's design, adopted by Campbell's in 1898, was inspired by the colors of what team uniform?