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...lungs than it could on its own; without particles to carry it, the gas can be exhaled relatively easily from the upper respiratory tract. Other participates act as catalysts in the atmosphere, speeding the conversion of sulphur dioxide into more harmful sulphuric acid. Particles of arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, lead, chromium and possibly manganese, discharged into the atmosphere by a variety of man-made processes, may contribute to cancer and heart disease...
...first, Matt seems to have met his match. The vil lain has at him with a flamethrowing cigarette lighter, a high-explosive lavaliere, and a jolly pink giant of a bodyguard (Tom Reese) with a shiny steel plate in the top of his skull that looks like a chromium yarmulke. But Matt strikes back with a delayed-action automatic, a bugged harmonica and a rocket-launching cigarette...
...Chromium Decline. Another of the 20 elements studied was chromium. All over the world, people are born with relatively generous amounts of chromium in their vital organs, but in the U.S. the levels decline precipitously around age ten. By juggling his rats' intake of chromium, Dr. Schroeder found that a severe shortage, such as afflicts many adult Americans, caused many of the rats to develop first diabetes and then artery disease-a condition remarkably like progressive human diabetes. With animals kept at what Dr. Schroeder considers a normal chromium level, there was virtually no diabetes or atherosclerosis. "Specialists...
Cautiously, Dr. Schroeder pointed out that he was not simplistically laying all the blame for high blood pressure and atherosclerosis on cadmium and chromium. Other exotic elements such as vanadium, zirconium and niobium, all "abundant in the human body," influence the level of fats in the blood...
...Prohibition corner saloon was the closest approximation of the pub, a bastion of masculine fellowship, with free lunch, gleaming spittoons, and an opulent nude over the bar. But what came back after Prohibition was mixed drinking and the thick-carpeted, chromium-cold cocktail lounge. Now, in a reach to recapture some of the old clubby atmosphere, bar-and-grills across the U.S. are making a stab at introducing the English (or Irish or Scottish...