Word: by-product
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...These outbreaks, warns Doyle, are an inevitable by-product of the way that many fruit and vegetable manufacturers have streamlined their production - and cut costs - by doing some of the processing of their ready-to-eat produce right in the fields, and not in the more controlled atmosphere of a factory. He sees it as a dangerous practice that could contribute to contamination. "Two to three years ago, I was asked to go out and view what was going on in the fields when there was an outbreak associated with a fast food restaurant chain from their cut-up lettuce...
...hotels, a playboy king, a base for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and significant cash flow from its role as a discreet "service provider" for Saudi Arabia. The lives of Saudis, and Bahrainis, are thoroughly framed by this arrangement, and its attendant hypocrisies. And both suffer the presence of its by-product: groups of stealthy, violent religious purists, graced with many opportunities to feel self-righteous. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...AMD—according to Rando. These toxins cause degeneration of the macula, the part of the retina that controls keenness of vision and color vision, sometimes to the point of complete blindness. “Every time light is absorbed in the retina...it produces a chemically reactive by-product,” Rando said. He explained that this by-product ought to be recycled by the eye, but its instability sometimes causes it to react with lipids to create lipofusins, whose stability prevents them from being easily broken down. “By inhibiting certain steps...
Still, sociologists who study teens say the rules are also a by-product of the hyperprotective parenting characteristic of baby boomers. "There's a disconnect between all this regulating and the dangers kids actually face," says Barbara Risman, head of the sociology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She says the strictures have a downside: "Taking away the ability to exercise choices might not allow teens to learn to make decisions and live with the consequences...
...walls of the house conceal Durisol interior concrete forms made of recycled wood chips, insulating material and cement. The hollow cores of the forms are filled with concrete to become walls that resist fire, termites and rot. Even the concrete has a high content of fly ash, a waste by-product from power plants that requires less energy to produce than standard cement. Plus, there was minimal reliance on toxic chemicals in things like adhesives or piping. "Anything that ends in an 'ethylene'?you definitely want that out," says Good. "Also, no chlorines, no benzenes...