Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 Editor's note: CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta answers medical questions submitted by e-mail on "Your Health" at 2:30 p.m. EDT Saturdays. Questions and answers are posted on CNN.com after the show. Q: What are the dangers in the sugar substitute aspartame found in various diet products? Richard in Anderson, Indiana A: Having a sweet tooth is perfectly normal. But some people, like diabetics, can't indulge in the sweet stuff, and others are told to cut back in order to lose weight. E-MAIL DR. GUPTA Click here to submit medical questions to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, then watch CNN at 2:30 p.m. EDT Saturdays to see if it is answered. That is where artificial sweeteners come in. Among the most popular is aspartame. While some groups have tried to link aspartame to everything from multiple sclerosis to brain tumors, the Food and Drug Administration says it is completely safe at "normal intake levels."
Extractions: Web posted at: 12:07 a.m. EDT (0407 GMT) WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, May 12) Vowing she "won't shy away from tough issues," Elizabeth Dole said Tuesday it is "wrong" to allow Americans to carry concealed weapons and that she supports mandatory safety locks on guns two gun-control proposals that GOP front-runner George W. Bush opposes. "I think police work is hard enough already. No one should make it harder. I think it's wrong to let people carry concealed weapons," Dole said in a prepared text for a much broader speech on the career paths of women. The announcement for specific gun-control measures distinguishes Dole from the rest of the GOP presidential field for the 2000 election. "It's the right thing to do and I won't shy away from the tough issues, even if some in my party don't like it," Dole said. While saying she opposes people being allowed to carry concealed weapons, she said it is ultimately "a matter for states to decide." In 1995, Texas Gov. Bush signed a bill into law that overturned a statewide ban on carrying concealed weapons that had been in place since 1871.
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 The tail of the wrecked SAS airliner MILAN, Italy Scandinavian Airlines System says there is no reason to believe that Milan's Linate airport is unsafe the day after one of its airliners collided with a light aircraft, killing 118 people. Linate's arrangements have prompted furious criticism in press comments in Italy and Scandinavia. Newspaper editorials accused the airport authorities of negligence for failing to ensure a ground radar system that could track movements of planes on the ground was working. SAS chief executive Jorgen Lindegaard is waiting for the results of three investigations into Monday's crash before reaching any conclusions. But he said on Tuesday: "We travel to many airports that have ground radar and many that do not. We have no reason to believe there is a safety problem at Linate." VIDEO Investigating the airport disaster, Tom Bogdanovic reports (October 9)