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...celery diet. The rodents were injected with a tiny amount of celery extract a day; a 150-lb. human would have to gobble four large stalks for the same proportionate intake. Stalks, however, unlike extract, contain lots of undesirable salt. The cardio-friendly ingredient in celery is a compound called phthalide that may also exert a mild sedative effect on humans...
Using such calculations for dioxin produced a conclusion that ingesting an infinitesimal amount of the compound each day over a lifetime -- about 0.006 trillionths of a gram per kilogram of body weight (or 0.014 trillionths of an ounce for a 150-lb. man) -- would cause 1 cancer among 1 million people. The contamination at Times Beach was 1,000 times as great as this safety limit...
Like earlier court documents, the witnesses' sworn statements point to an alarming behavior pattern on the part of Smith, 30, a nephew of Senator Edward Kennedy and a Georgetown medical school graduate, who is charged with raping a 29-year-old woman at the Kennedy compound during Easter weekend. The three women tell remarkably similar stories about meeting Smith at a party, then being offered an escort home and a spare room at his parents' place; none of the women suspected that any harm could come to them. "He was quite charming," recalls one witness, who met Smith...
Down the road, in the new-rich suburb of Ciudad Jardin, is the modern compound of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela. Nicknamed the "Chess Player" because he runs his business -- and life -- with cold calculation, he parlayed youthful jobs as a drugstore clerk by day and a kidnapper by night into a vast network of enterprises, including a pharmacy chain, office and apartment buildings, banks, car dealerships, radio stations and Cali's talented America soccer team. His handsome younger brother Miguel is a fixture on the local social scene, and their children, educated in the U.S. or Europe, are often compared...
...high chain link fence topped by barbed wire, and outfitted with four 30-ft. observation posts. All of this is not to keep Escobar in -- it is to keep his enemies out. That includes national and secret police, who will not be permitted to enter the 2.5-acre compound. Instead, officials of Envigado -- a town virtually owned by Escobar -- selected guards, who had to meet the approval of Escobar's lawyers...