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...taste challenge? Or the Atomic Fireball is the ultimate tongue torture? They barely move the needle for confectionery connoisseurs. Today's incendiary candies--Scorned Woman jalapeno fudge, Hola Pop! hot lollipops, Pulparindo tamarind bars--are going for that melt-your-mouth taste. Hailing mostly from Mexico, these spicy treats contain sugar, of course, countered by salt, chili, pepper or tamarind. Thank the nation's growing Hispanic population for the intro. Now these sweets are being munched by the same kids who pucker up for sour candies. Says Susan Smith of the National Confectioners Association: "Children are the innovators here. They...
...Chinese diet pills?have alerted health authorities to a hazard they have been almost powerless to stop. Similar drugs were implicated in deaths in China last year, with scores more falling ill in Korea and Hong Kong. Japan last month banned 24 types of Chinese diet drugs?many containing N-nitroso fenfluramine?and rushed through new laws placing the burden on importers to prove product safety or face a fine of up to $26,000. Just last week, health officials in China published a ban on 13 diet products, seven of which were found to contain fenfluramine...
...chemicals. "These slimming pills are registered as herbal medicines or health food and do not need to pass through drug trials," says Dr. Lo, a liver specialist at the University of Hong Kong. "There's no safety data, and their efficacy is not based on any evidence." Product labels contain no warnings, few guidelines for use, and potentially dangerous ingredients are often not listed. "Anyone who takes these pills is basically acting as a trial subject," says Dr. Chung Mau Lo of the University of Hong Kong Medical Center, who works in its liver transplant clinic...
...result was thousands of websites blocked, including 7,000 “wrongly blocked” websites that did not contain sexually explicit materials, Edelman said. These blocked sites included a man running for state legislature, many informational sites on AIDS and AIDS prevention and sites about breast cancer...
...mile, then another, and you reach, improbably, a body of water known as Lake Vostok that rivals Lake Ontario in size. While scientists haven't yet drilled into the lake itself, they have pulled up samples of frozen lake water clinging to the bottom of the ice cap that contain unmistakable evidence of microbial DNA. Although it hovers near the freezing point, cut off from light and outside nutrients, Lake Vostok is teeming with microorganisms. "Nobody," marvels John Priscu, a Montana State University microbiologist who has studied the samples, "thought there could be any life down there...