drug, drug-treated, additive, ractopamine, maximum residue level

戴維。考特萊特(David T. Courtwright )在他的著作《上癮五百年》 中，嚐試把英文 “Drug” 定義為一個中性的概念﹕「癮品」，也就是泛指所有可致成癮或可改變人精神狀態的物質，由強性的(Hard Drugs)鴉片、大麻、可卡因、安非他命、酒精，到弱性的(Soft Drugs)如煙草、可可、茶、咖啡甚至糖，皆在此列。



On the Menu in Taiwan? US Beef with a Dash of Ractopamine
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Activists hold placards during a protest against Taiwan government's plan to allow beef imports from the United States in front of the cabinet building (Executive Yuan) in Taipei March 7, 2012. Will Taiwan's proposed serving of US beef give it a seat ...

Taiwan plans to lift ban on most drug-treated US beef
AFP
TAIPEI — Taiwan said Tuesday it plans to lift a ban on most US beef containing a controversial growth drug in an apparent bid to facilitate trade talks with Washington, triggering a protest from opponents. The plan, pending parliament's approval, ...


Taiwan mulls limits for meat additive 添加物 此處指瘦肉精ractopamine
Taipei Times
By Shih Hsiu-chuan / Staff Reporter Taiwan is set to revert to adopting a maximum residue level (MRL) for ractopamine to resolve the trade dispute on US beef imports. Taiwan is set to revert to adopting a maximum residue level (MRL) for ractopamine ...



Japanese tsunami debris field to hit West Coast
Contra Costa Times
While concern surrounding Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors holds most of the world's attention, some scientists are worried about another issue -- a massive floating debris field headed toward the West Coast of the United States. ...

Lehman Estate Emerges From Bankruptcy More than three years after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, setting off a financial tsunami, the failed firm's estate emerged from Chapter 11 protection on Tuesday, ready to begin paying out creditors.

FIELD
(fēld)
n.

1. 1. A broad, level, open expanse of land.
   2. A meadow: a field of buttercups.
   3. A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop: a field of corn.
   4. A portion of land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource.
   5. A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice.
2. 1. A battleground.
   2. A battle.
   3. The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers.
   4. A military area away from headquarters.
3. 1. A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin: a blue insignia on a field of red.
   2. Heraldry. The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background.
4. Sports.
   1. An area in which an athletic event takes place, especially the area inside or near to a running track, where field events are held.
   2. The portion of a playing field having specific dimensions on which the action of a game takes place.
   3. All the contestants or participants in an event, especially all the contestants except the favorite or the winner in a contest of more than two.
   4. The members of a team engaged in active play.
   5. The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.
5. 1. An area of human activity or interest: several fields of endeavor.
   2. A topic, subject, or area of academic interest or specialization.
   3. Profession, employment, or business.
   4. An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory: biologists working in the field; a product tested in the field.
   5. An area or region where business activities are conducted: sales representatives in the field.
6. Mathematics. A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition, that the set is a group under addition, and that the elements with the exception of the additive identity form a group under multiplication.
7. Physics. A region of space characterized by a physical property, such as gravitational or electromagnetic force or fluid pressure, having a determinable value at every point in the region.
8. The usually circular area in which the image is rendered by the lens system of an optical instrument. Also called field of view.
9. Computer Science.
   1. A defined area of a storage medium, such as a set of bit locations or a set of adjacent columns on a punch card, used to record a type of information consistently.
   2. An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.
   3. An interface element in a GUI that accepts the input of text.