Schedule for rating disabilities; Appendices A, B, and C. Final rule

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is revising its Schedule for Rating Disabilities, Appendices A, B, and C to include all current diagnostic codes. Appendix A is also amended to include all the diagnostic code historical information since the last review.     

Food and Drug Administration--infant formulas; interim guidelines for nutrient composition; notice to manufacturers, packers, and distributors. Notice

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing in this notice a statement of policy concerning interim guidelines for the nutrient composition and nutrient levels in infant formulas. The recommendations on standards for nutrient levels in infant formulas made by the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1976 should be followed by infant formula manufacturers as interim guidelines until revision in the existing infant formula nutrient composition regulation (21 CFR 105,65) is completed.     

War & Society,Centeno, Miguel A. and Elaine Enriquez. (Cambridge,UK: Polity Press, 2016).

A bumper sticker on many cars in college and university parking lots proclaims: “WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER.” Most American students and faculty spend their entire time at university without thinking about war, except that they want to avoid it at all cost. Miguel Centeno, the Musgrave Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, and Elaine Enriquez, a research fellow also at Princeton, argue that war has been a normal part of human existence since time immemorial and that it deserves to be studied as a sociopolitical phenomenon in its own right. The authors employ a longue durée comparative approach to demonstrate how war has been responsible for some of humankind’s fundamental institutions and practices, and thus must not be condemned as immoral, irrational, stupid, or evil. War has a history of its own that deserves serious study.