ISSUE XXXII
THURSDAY
Oct. 4, 2007
Last updated at 1:30 p.m. Thursday

CULTURE FEATURE

Get your hands on some luxury items. Chandeliers, frying pans, and bedsheets - the Watergate Hotel is liquidating its inventory to make room for renovations. (Observer photo by Janine Cooper)


OCT. 4, 2007

Congress to propose new food safety legislation

Some in Congress are calling for a complete overhaul of the FDA. They say American inspectors should have the power to check overseas food plants that may make Americans sick.

The Observer's Adina Young has more.

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