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Another factor was the rapacious overuse of resources. The goats, pigs and sheep brought by the Norse ate or trampled the forests and shrub lands, eventually transforming them into bare ground. Without enough fodder, the farm animals could not survive. The Norse were forced to eat more seal, seabirds and fish--and these too became locally scarce. The depletion of Greenland's meager trees and bushes meant no wood for fuel or for repairing ships...
...colleagues recruited 2,079 men and women ages 35 and older who had had a precancerous polyp removed from their colon in the previous six months. (About 5% to 10% of such polyps eventually become malignant.) The volunteers were then randomly divided into an "intervention group," which ate a low-fat diet that included five to eight servings of fruits and vegetables each day, and a control group, which consumed more red meat, fewer beans and less fish...
...they did, in their midst. Hit by storms, low on food and water, even attacked by a killer whale, the men began dying and the survivors ate the remains. Pollard's 18-year-old cousin was sacrificed after a drawing of lots. When they were rescued, after three months adrift, only eight of the Essex's 21 men were alive...
...Tavern (1884) is said to be so exclusive that the man who proposed forming the club, a teacher of Italian descent, was denied admission. Sort of. Another story tells how a man who ate with his toes created the club. Not quite. In fact, a group of young artists and like-minded Gilded Age Bostonian gentlemen would often meet together to dine at some of the restaurants in the Park Street area. One day a troup of vaudville freaks shoved their way through the entrance of the restaurant and demanded service. The “armless wonder” ate...
...costs to pump, encouraging waste. In the mid-1980s, Indonesia spent $150 million annually to subsidize pesticide use. With access to cheap chemicals, Indonesian farmers poured pesticides onto their rice fields, killing pests, to be sure, but also causing human illness and wiping out birds and other creatures that ate the pests. When Indonesia ended the subsidies in 1986, pesticide use dropped dramatically with no ill effects on rice production...