Reference Desl: "The Society for Amateur Scientists is building a program that will link scientists and engineers of all stripes with young people who share their passion for science, through a highly structured program called LABRats. The kids and mentors will come, largely, from the same communities. Our long-term goal is to build a nation-wide community of science enthusiasts that could one-day include a million young people and which could be sustained indefinitely, much like the Boy Scouts. Only instead of building this organization around the teaching of camping skills, LABRats will center itself around the teaching of an in-depth and engaging hands-on science program."
(washingtonpost.com) : "Employees at the Department of Agriculture's main cafeteria were just sitting down to lunch on Friday when security guards ordered everyone in the huge eatery to leave.
Al Qaeda? Bomb scare? No. Mouse droppings. The D.C. Department of Health closed the cafeteria for failing to pass inspection.
Yes, the USDA, home to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the meat and poultry inspectors -- the agency that is part of the federal system for protecting the nation's food supply, was in violation of the D.C. Health Code.
There were several citations, according to the inspection report, including: 'water leaking excessively' in the ceiling, employees not wearing hair restraints, and inadequate cleaning of the inside of ice machines, cabinets, surfaces and equipment.
The biggest problem, however, seemed to be mouse droppings found everywhere -- in the dry storage room, by the salad bar, behind the ovens, near the serving line, ...
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