Good news for us bachelors.

Seventies Oatmeal Still Tastes OK
Next time you feel compelled to clean out the pantry, don't feel bad about putting it off.

A lot of the old food that's gone beyond the manufacturer's expiration date could still be edible for years or decades longer.

Such are the findings of food science researchers who recently subjected a panel of human tasters to samples of really old food. They discovered that artifacts like 20-year-old dried milk and 28-year-old rolled oats were still perfectly edible and sometimes even tasted OK."

This is the worst news ever.

Well, maybe not the worst news ever, but if you can't trust your alcohol, what can you trust?

Salon.com | News Wires: "Thirty-three people in a Siberian region have died after drinking homemade alcohol containing a poisonous substance, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Wednesday.

The Magadan region's deputy governor, Yuri Muromtsev, said the victims, mostly men between the ages of 45 and 60, died between Oct. 28 and Nov. 6 after being poisoned by methanol, a common industrial substance used as a transportation fuel.

Interfax reported earlier this week that at least 30 people had been poisoned by tainted alcohol and that 25 of them had died, and said four women had been arrested on charges of illegal production and sale of alcohol products.

But ITAR-Tass quoted an unnamed official at the Russian prosecutor general's office as saying only that a court had issued arrest warrants for two suspects.

Officials say thousands of people die in Russia every year from drinking poisonous homemade or illegally produced alcohol or fake alcohol, often made from wood alcohol that is meant for industrial purposes."

Independent Online Edition > Middle East

Independent Online Edition > Middle East: "Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians with the appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon.

Ever since the assault, which went unreported by any Western journalists, rumours have swirled that the Americans used chemical weapons on the city."