Word: convertibles
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...which falls relatively quickly back to earth--or aerosol form, which can travel anywhere around the globe. Either way, when it lands, trouble begins. On the ground or especially in the low-oxygen environment of the oceans, mercury is consumed by bacteria that add a bit of carbon to convert it to methylmercury, a metabolically stickier form that stays in the body a long time. That is bad news for the food chain, since every time a bigger animal eats a smaller animal, it consumes a heavy dose of its prey's mercury load. That's why such large predatory...
...detergents and other products. More than 25% of the U.S. total blows in from overseas, particularly from coal-gobbling countries like China. Illinois Senator Barack Obama has proposed two bills to address those problems. One requires the eight chlor-alkali plants in the U.S. that still use mercury to convert to a less toxic alternative by 2012. The other calls for a ban on U.S. exports of mercury starting in 2010--a significant move, since the U.S. sells as much as 300 tons of the metal a year, or 8% of the world's total. More than a dozen state...
...need. Who will be next in terrorism's variation on Russian roulette? Putri Norlisa Najib London Al-Qaeda, Hizballah and Hamas may have slightly different agendas, but they all have the same goal: to spread Islamic rule throughout the West. Americans have three choices: submit to their will, convert to Islam or fight. I prefer that we - and all freedom-loving people - stand up to terrorism no matter who is sponsoring it. Robert Reichert Punta Gorda, Florida, U.S. Beyer's statement that Hizballah's main goal is "to defend Lebanon from Israel" is appalling. Anyone who understands Arabic...
...journalists, freed early on Sunday, claimed their captors had treated them well but forced them to convert to Islam at gunpoint...
...being newcomers to the faith doesn't spare converts from the suspicions and pressures faced by Muslims in the West today. Ali Khan, the national director of the American Muslim Council in Chicago, says he once had to convince a recent convert's wife, who wasn't Muslim, that her husband wouldn't suddenly become a terrorist. "A lot of their families freak out at first," Khan says. He says another convert had to reassure his brother, who asked, "You're not going to kill me in my sleep, are you?" And yet there's little evidence that negative perceptions...