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...people taking the type of medications marketed as Prilosec and Prevacid are almost three times as likely to suffer a C. diff attack as non-users, and those taking the type marketed as Pepcid or Zantac may be twice as likely. It seems that bacteria don't like stomach acid any better than consumers do, and when you suppress it chemically the bugs have a better chance of surviving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stomach Bug Proves Tough to Kill | 12/30/2005 | See Source »

Hallucinogenics, PCP, sheets of acid. I woke up one day and shook the drugs off…I smoke pot as a mood stabilizer because I don’t want anti-depressants. I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t do any hard drugs…I woke up in a different skin; I no longer wanted to repesent any of that shit anymore…In changing my life, the record changed at the same time...

Author: By Sam D. G. Jacoby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rapper Cage Breaks Loose | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...Lluvia” takes Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Amore,” runs it through a few electronic filters, and hops it up on acid. The vocals wander alone for a while before the drums and guitar jump back in, this time with electronics back up, forcing the band into “Red and White Bells,” the nine-minute nightmare opus of the album...

Author: By Evan L. Hanlon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beautiful Seizure | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...Jilin Petrochemical Company last month. The 50-year-old facility, built with Soviet technology, is China's showcase chemical complex, alma mater to the country's top chemical engineers. On the afternoon of Nov. 13, pressure built up in a 40-m tower at plant No. 101, where nitric acid and benzene are combined to make nitrobenzene, a highly toxic liquid. Technicians tried to relieve the pressure but failed, and the column exploded, killing five workers and injuring 70 others. Five more explosions followed. The blasts broke windows and produced a massive, orange cloud of smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Toxic Shock | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...States citizens defend at home and abroad. In his 2003 State of the Union speech Bush publicly pledged his unequivocal commitment to the U.S.’ core values: freedom, democracy, and human rights. Speaking specifically to Iraqi torture atrocities—electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape—he declared, “If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning.” Yet, two years later, this commitment is being egregiously compromised...

Author: By Bede A. Moore | Title: Torturing Justice | 11/23/2005 | See Source »

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