BOSTON -- A group of former students who ate radioactive oatmeal as unwitting participants in a food experiment will share a $1.85 million settlement from Quaker Oats and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
More than 100 youngsters at the Fernald School in Waltham were fed cereal containing radioactive iron and calcium in the 1940s and 1950s. The diet was part of an experiment to prove the nutrients in Quaker oatmeal travel throughout the body. Read More...
The sandwich chain Subway announced it had “mutually agreed” to suspend its relationship with long-time spokesman Jared Fogle, hours after investigators raided his Indiana home Tuesday morning.
Fogle, who for more than a decade starred in television commercials for the company, was not arrested or charged with any crime, his attorney said. Earlier in the day, as media reports showed authorities interviewing Fogle and removing electronic equipment from his home in Zionsville, Subway said it was “shocked about the news. Read More...
Witches have always liked cats. Sure, they’ve been known to hang out with a wide variety of creatures, including lambs, hornets and crabs. But felines are their favorite consorts, according to an academic analysis that tallied up animal “familiars” from 200 historic English witch trials.
Is anybody really surprised? The hags from Macbeth didn’t dunk their “brinded” cat in the cauldron with the newt’s eye and dog tongue – they preferred to keep it alive and meowing. Read More...