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Word: digests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Without public hearings, without a decent interval of time for the American people to digest it... the House leadership railroaded it through," complained consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who opposes congressional pay increases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Votes to Hike Member Pay to $120K | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

...prepared to devour this modern-day ambrosia, I was struck with a horrible thought: I had forgotten to bring with me my Lactaid tablets! (Some of The Crimson's lactose-intolerant readers may not be aware that the Lactaid company also produces chewable tablets which enable some intolerants to digest milk products, if one-half to three tablets are consumed with one's first bite of ice cream or sip of milk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lactose Anguish | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

...cause is not racial, ethnic, religous or sexual in nature. It is digestive. Since the age of 13, I have been unable to digest milk and some diary products including cream, soft cheeses and, yes ice cream. In technical terms, my name is Josh, and I am lactose intolerant...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Liberty, Equality, Ice Cream | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...every lunch and dinner for the past three years, my roommate turns on all his Texas charm and asks whether he can get me some ice cream. "Whoops!" he pretends to remember. "You can't digest it! HAHAHAHAHA! [slurp...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Liberty, Equality, Ice Cream | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

Modern science, a cowboy achievement, paradoxically favors the Indian view of life. Nature is alive. The barest Antarctic rock is crawling with microbes. Viruses float on the dust. Bacteria help digest our food for us. According to modern evolutionary biology, our very cells are cities of formerly independent organisms. On the molecular level, the distinction between self and nonself disappears in a blur of semipermeable membranes. Nature goes on within and without us. It wafts through us like a breeze through a screened porch. On the biological level, the world is a seamless continuum of energy and information passing back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Fear in A Handful of Numbers | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

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