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Food Coverage Finds Niche Between War, SARS Coverage
The way in which 2003 began, the year did not appear to become a favorable one for news coverage of food science–related topics. The war against Iraq not only influenced news media coverage but also affected the nation in general and hundreds of thousands of families specifically. The SARS virus not only curtailed international travel and, to a great extent, tourism in the United States and abroad but also significantly affected IFT as planning…