Word: acidic
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...Swedish biotech firm has signed an exclusive agreement with Harvard Medical School (HMS) that provides the firm broad access to nucleic acid technology developed...
...conversion and reduces the cost of producing clean transportation fuels. If the technology lives up to its promise and can economically transform coal into diesel fuel and gasoline, coal-rich countries such as the U.S., China and Germany could depend far less on imported oil. At the same time, acid-rain pollution would be reduced because the liquefaction strips coal of harmful sulfur. Given current world oil prices (about $27 per bbl.), turning coal into gas is economical in China. "A $4-to-$8-per-bbl. increase in the price of oil would make it economically attractive...
...even worse, according to CNN dietitian Liz Weiss, an expert on family nutrition. While saturated fats raise ldl cholesterol, Weiss explains, "trans fats appear to both raise bad (LDL) cholesterol and lower the good (HDL) cholesterol." The FDA does not currently require vendors to label foods for trans-fatty-acid content, but the agency has new rules in the works that would force McDonald's and others to do just that...
...cranks up the kitsch an extra notch: '50s-era nuclear children and busty, bouffant models--often in full evening wear--grin manically from the plush interiors of futuristic, tear-drop-shaped Kozy Coaches and Karriall Kampers, many of which look as if they were designed by Buck Rogers on acid. The authors admire their subject with very little irony, but you should feel free to bring your own. Trailer Travel is a glimpse of a moment in time, unimaginable now, when mobile homes were almost cool...
...exchange is modeled after the largest and most successful experiment to date involving pollution permits. Under the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act, the U.S. government set a cap, or limit, on sulfur dioxide emissions, a contributor to acid rain, and distributed tradable emissions permits. Companies able to reduce their emissions below the cap could sell their unused permits to others. The Environmental Protection Agency says the program has reduced SO[2] emissions more than 30% from 1990 levels and cost industry a mere 20% of what the government originally estimated...