Word: acidizing
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...tried to lead a secessionist movement in Katanga, the Congo's richest province. With the blessing of both Belgium and the U.S., Lumumba was nearly beaten to death, then taken out to an isolated forest and shot. His body was hacked to pieces and then dissolved in acid in order to prevent its use as a symbol by the warring political factions...
...natural-food stores. Then there was the line of breakfast cereals from Zoe Foods, launched in Massachusetts last year by a woman who wanted to make granola for women like her menopausal mom. In January, General Mills climbed on board, introducing Harmony cereal with soy protein, folic acid and a vanilla-almond-oat flavor that rated high in female focus groups. And this fall Quaker will roll out its Nutrition for Women oatmeal, which features extra calcium and iron and a feminized lavender backdrop behind the trademark white-haired Quaker...
...What the new fem foods have in common is that they all trumpet nutrients that benefit women in particular, from the tried and true, such as calcium for preventing osteoporosis and folic acid for staving off birth defects, to sexy newcomers like soy, which is popularly believed to fight breast cancer and relieve the symptoms of menopause, though this is still unproved...
...Bush made clear from the outset that he's going to build a missile shield regardless, which left the Europeans no room to imagine that Washington could be dissuaded. Of course, the acid test of that position will come in Russia's response, but Bush's approach appears to have worked with the Europeans. They're now resigned to the U.S. building it, and if at Wednesday's meeting with NATO leaders the key European players didn't exactly embrace Bush's concept, they at least began talking about the need for a new strategic framework to confront new threats...
...Freshman year, most of my friends were proud users of soft drugs. That fall I decided to comp for the Lampoon as the result of a chance encounter with a celebrated Lampoon genius mid-acid-trip—his, not mine. And that winter, a roommate and I managed to buy a one-pound slab of hashish, a gorgeous and remarkable object I still recall vividly...