U.S. Veteran gets detained in North Korea

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/21/us-korea-north-detention-idUSBRE9AK00P20131121

North Korea has recently detained an 85 year old Korean war veteran visiting from California. He was there to visit the land he once walked on so many years ago. He was there to study the culture and see how things have improved since the time he was there. While boarding his flight back to his home country he was forcefully taken off the plane by officials and taken away to be held in an undisclosed location says his son. The North Korean officials claim that he brought over "propaganda materials" to overthrow the state which is complete nonsense. He was approved by North Korea to come into the country, had all the right visas and passports, and is an elderly man who was seeking no harm in his visit. I think it is now an issue of human rights as to when and how soon the North Korean officials release  Newman. U.S. and North Korea's foreign relationship has not been very good in the last decade and this will not help any of these issues.

FDA and Trans Fat

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/health/fda-trans-fats/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

FDA Takes on Trans Fat

A positive change that is currently taking place in our country is the regulation of the use of trans fat in our foods. Trans fat is used by distributing companies to add flavor, elongate shelf life, and to make food look pretty. However, trans fat has no purpose other than that. Our bodies don't know how to break down trans fat and therefore proposes complications to our health such as heart disease, raises bad cholesterol and lowers good, and increases risk for heart attacks. I am really proud of our government for our government to focus on something as important to the publics health as this. This is hopefully the first step of many to reforming what goes into our food and what we eat. This applies to AP Gov because the FDA is part of the government and they are trying to pass a new law.