Word: acidic
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...Fatty acids, the building blocks for fat, are divided into three chemical classes according to their hydrogen content: saturated, mono-unsaturated and polyunsaturated. Only the polyunsaturated ones are considered "essential," meaning they cannot be manufactured by the body. Like minerals and vitamins, they must be ingested as food. "If we don't eat enough," says Siguel, "then we won't have enough." And that would be unfortunate, for these compounds -- principally linoleic acid and linolenic acid -- are vital to the maintenance of cell membranes and to the manufacture of potent chemical messengers that regulate everything from blood pressure...
...Essential-fatty-acid deficiency," Siguel sweepingly declares, "is perhaps the most important health problem in America." When essential fatty acids are in short supply, he explains, the body compensates by substituting other types of fatty acids that have a less supple biochemical structure. As polyunsaturates are replaced by these other compounds, cell membranes become more rigid, leading to progressive hardening of the arterial walls...
Leslie Megahey's The Advocate (originally The Hour of the Pig) is an acid British satire of legal and moral hypocrisy, a tart black comedy about the black-plague years in the 14th century -- and the 20th. The film was cited for undue boisterousness in a (really quite mild) sex scene...
Madsen originated at the embattled Aware Woman Center for Choice clinic in Melbourne, Florida. Protesters regularly blocked the clinic's doorway and climbed the fences to yell things like "Mommy! Don't kill me! They're ripping my arm off!" at clients. Aware Woman was attacked with butyric acid and its locks were jammed with glue; its staff members were stalked and threatened and their neighbors and children accosted. Finally, last year, a month after the murder of Dr. David Gunn by an antiabortion zealot 275 miles away in Pensacola, a circuit judge acted: he replaced a limited injunction against...
...tinker with the constitution, the unwritten "document" that is the foundation of his country's culture? The official church is woven deeply into it, and his statement about changing the oath he will someday take caused immediate expressions of concern from several scholars. But the sharpest reaction came from acid-tongued leftist Tony Benn, who intoned, "If the Prince of Wales is moving one brick, you cannot be surprised if the building tumbles." Then he threw in a threat: if Charles persists in his course, Benn will use his position as a member of the Privy Council to veto...