Lululemon Athletica is backing away from claims touting the health benefits of its seaweed-fibre clothing after concerns raised by the federal Competition Bureau. Lululemon, a fast-growing retailer that has been a stock market darling since going public in the summer, agreed to remove the tags with the claims or cover them with a sticker until it can produce scientific evidence that they are true. Andrea Rosen, the bureau's acting deputy commissioner, said the agency has also asked...

In this process, the government expropriates and then redistributes the targeted land, if need be, in parcels conforming to various priority categories, beginning with dividing up public land into individual or jointly-held communal properties located, for the most part, in the eastern part of the country. Current lowland indigenous land rights are also an issue in the struggle but the parcels are much less quantifiable even though they tend to be huge in size. In this process, the...

The bill, in part, curbs subprime lending and requires states to license all types of mortgage providers. email this print this Posted on Sun, Nov. The bill requires probable-cause warrants for surveillance, except in dire emergencies. A yes vote was to advance the bill. WASHINGTON - Here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress voted on major roll calls last week. The House passed, 227-189, and sent to the Senate a bill that would give the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...

Hoffner, others win farming awards Staff report. Carrie Hoffner, a senior at South Rowan High School, received a top award on the Rowan County farm scene Friday the Rowe McNeely Animal Science Award. Hoffner received the award at the annual Farm-City Day luncheon held at the Rowan County Agriculture Center. She is the daughter of Lonnie and Julie Hoffner. The award is named for a man who headed the Agriculture Extension Service in Rowan for many years. The Salisbury Kiwanis Club sponsored...

Dow claims to be the largest producer of polyether polyol in the world, with more than 20 PUR manufacturing and system-house sites, as well as $5 billion in annual sales, putting the weight of a market leader behind a green alternative. PLA and PHA have a new green acronym in their ranks NOP (natural-oil polyols) with seed oil joining corn sugars to chip away at fossil-fuel-based chemicals, in this instance the polyurethane (PUR) precursor. Dow says this first-generation of...