Thursday,  March 14, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 238 • 28 of 31 •  Other Editions

(Continued from page 27)

heimer's disease.
• Lars Olsen, a spokesman for the tribunal, confirmed Ieng Sary's death. The cause was not immediately known, but he had suffered from high blood pressure and heart problems and had been admitted to a Phnom Penh hospital March 4 with weakness and severe fatigue.
• "We are disappointed that we could not complete the proceeding against Ieng Sary," Olsen said, adding the case against his colleagues Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist, and Khieu Samphan, an ex-head of state, will continue and will not be affected.
• ___

As consumers get curious about what's in food, a look at greenlighting ingredients

• SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop putting an obscure vegetable oil in its Gatorade right before the Super Bowl, one of the loudest cheers came from a high school student who had made it her mission to get rid of the ingredient.
• "I was like, 'Whoa,'" said Sarah Kavanagh, a 16-year-old from Hattiesburg, Miss., who wanted to know how an oil that contains a chemical also found in flame retardants got into her favorite sports drink. After she posted a petition on Change.org asking Pepsi to remove it, more than 200,000 people signed.
• "I just wanted to make sure it was something that I could drink," said the teen.
• From oil in Gatorade to the amount of caffeine and other stimulants in energy drinks and the so-called "pink slime" found in beef, previously unnoticed ingredients are coming under scrutiny as health-conscious consumers demand more information about what they eat and drink, and sometimes go public via social networking and the Internet.
• So how does some of this stuff get into our food?
• ___

Comcast offering customers a week to binge on popular TV shows

• NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's largest cable company is planning a television "watchathon" for the last week of March, collaborating with several television networks to make entire series available for free on demand.
• The Comcast Corp.'s plan encourages binge viewing, where people spend hours

(Continued on page 29)

© 2012 Groton Daily Independent • To send correspondence, click here.