Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gerber Products and Baker Laboratories funded an interesting study to determine the appropriate quantity of a certain fatty acid to be put in their baby foods. The study--conducted at the University of Texas--involved depriving mostly black infants of linoleic acid, a component of milk necessary for growth and development. Because the black babies were apparently all orphaned and wards of the state, no consent was awarded in the babies' interests. The few white infants, children of interns, served as the "controls" receiving the normal diet of the essential nutrient...
These chemicals would be sold on the open market throughout the world. In addition, the Soviets would get large quantities of superphosphoric acid, produced by Occidental in the U.S., which would be manufactured into phosphate fertilizers sorely needed by the Russian agriculture industry...
...chateau. "That was as close to our fa ther as we could get," Maya said. "It's sad. The whole situation is very delicate." The next day, Paulo's son Pablo, 24, of nearby Golfe-Juan, was reported in serious condition after drinking a bottle of chloric acid. According to his mother (who has long been separated from Paulo), Pablo had been despondent about being kept from seeing his grandfather. Others said he had also been depressed about financial troubles...
...couple of weeks ago, a Medical School dean uncovered two studies in prominent medical publications in which a Texas research team had deprived infants of a fatty acid essential for growth and development. The team was aware that the deprivation of the nutrient could lead to irrevocable brain damage and would at least produce horrendous skin lesions. Black babies made up the overwhelming majority of the subjects used in those investigations...
...curiousity of a most unmorbid sort--but each new experience left me with the same anti-climax. They were all interesting in one way or another, but nothing to write a book about. And now, preparing a drug education booklet on heroin, I figured it was time for the acid test. In no way was I going to subject readers to third-hand medicinal accounts or wailing dramaturgy from a pet addict from the local half-way therapeutic community...