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...increasing variety of products as companies find new ways to market the renewable marine resource. At its ultramodern factory in Brest, France, the laboratory company Science et Mer recently launched its own line of seaweed-based skin creams based on purported anti-aging agents in a certain blue micro-alga. Currently, some 100 firms in Brittany now base their business on seaweed, harvesting more than 100,000 tons a year. While seaweed is a dietary staple in Asia, algae-based products in Europe have previously gone undercover as additives to ice cream, desserts, toothpaste, even diapers. Yet its health benefits...
When Dunbar was on the way up, he squandered his wealth and made loans to friends who never paid him back. The tax scam unraveled when Evelyn Alga, an assistant in the office of Dunbar's tax accountant, called the IRS and offered evidence implicating not only Dunbar but the accountant. The IRS paid Alga $41,300 for her tip. MEXICO Containing the Debt Crisis...
...called "tanker war" has scaled down sharply since Dec. 26 after a record 36 vessels were hit in one month. Only one ship has been hit since then, and Iraq apparently attacked the 26,260-ton Maltese freighter Alga by mistake...
APRIL 9. New York City. Bremer finally goes to the massage parlor. I picked out the blonde. A hairy character said, "Alga, you have a ½ session in studio 2." She led me into a room, locked it, turned the lights out and lit incest [sic]. Piped in music began. I handed her 3 tens and said we'd have to take it easy as I just ate lunch. I took off my vested business suit and overcoat and layed on my stomack, nude. I started some talk about a burglar alarm that was ringing and was ringing...
...near Paris, Biologists Marcel Lefevre and Guy Laporte found that they were teeming with microorganisms. Yet only one was multiplying massively enough to produce the ugly green discoloration on the cave walls. The culprit, the scientists report in the British journal Studies in Speleology, was a hardy, spherical alga called Palmellococcus...