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That so far has hardly been proved. President Taylor, whom more people wanted to look at in 1991 than did in the first place, was believed to have been done in with arsenic. On July 4, 1850, he ate a bowl of cherries and downed a glass of buttermilk; a few days later he was dead. In 1991 the subject was brought up again, his tissue samples were assailed with neutrons, and the forensic conclusion was that he had not been poisoned after all. Scientists were disappointed. But historians guessed rightly that a glass of buttermilk without arsenic is enough...
...there are a great many conspiracy theorists who insist that alongside the buried famous are buried secrets that, once disclosed, will change our view of history. If Taylor's Vice President and successor, Millard Fillmore, was found to have injected arsenic into one of the President's cherries, it would have provided the one memorable event in both careers. A "second-cherry theory" would have pointed to two or more assassins...
REVERSE OSMOSIS. These compact units force pressurized water across semipermeable membranes. Lead, arsenic and even some pathogens like Giardia are flushed out of the system--along with 50% to 90% of the water. The purified water that's left behind is passed through yet another filter and stored in a pressurized tank. Under-the-sink models may cost...
...claimed, Princess Anastasia of Russia) or hereditary diseases (that's how they hope to prove Lincoln suffered from Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes its victims grow tall and gangly). Hair also soaks up drugs and other foreign substances from the body (low levels of arsenic in Napoleon's hair established that the ex-Emperor probably wasn't poisoned, as some historians believed...
...activities, rather than stand-alone bills debated openly on the floor of Congress. And many more are tucked away in budget reconciliation bills that will whiz through Congress in the next several weeks. The riders include directives to the Environmental Protection Agency forbidding it to issue standards for measuring arsenic in tap water or to list new hazardous waste sites for cleanup. Hansen has sponsored a rider that sets up a commission to consider closing some of the 368 parks and other sites run by the National Park Service. He has said as many as 150 of them could...