Word: algae
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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...