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...Ellen Dye, an administrator for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Chicago, takes a 4 p.m. swim in the glass-enclosed pool of her apartment house and watches commuter traffic build up outside. One of her bosses, Lee Feldman, gets up early and jogs along Chicago's lakefront. In Palo Alto, Calif., Ted Stephens, an executive of Alza, a pharmaceutical firm, fixes a leisurely breakfast for his two children, drives them to their school, goes back to bed and shows up at his office as late...
...Most candy canes produced in the continental United States contain no Red Dye...
...gang of self-proclaimed "anti- Communists" kidnaped Brazilian Bishop Adriano Hypolito on Sept. 22, poured liquor down his throat, painted his body with red dye and dumped him, naked, on a back street in outlying Rio de Janeiro. For good measure the thugs blew up his car in front of the Brazilian hi- erarchy's offices...
Since the Food and Drug Administration last week banned Red Dye No. 4, a carcinogenic food dye, so you might expect Harvard medical experts to gag uncontrollably at the thought of eating maraschino cherries in their Manhattans...
...source of the honey that sugar-loving humans consume in great quantities each year. Other insects are also considered beneficial. The attractive red and black ladybird beetle, or ladybug, celebrated in the nursery rhyme, eats aphids and other small insects?to the gardener's delight. Before the development of dyes made from coal-tar derivatives, a scale insect provided the world with red dye; other species of scale insects are still used in the manufacture of shellac. The flesh-eating larvae of the dermestid beetle are used by museums to strip clean the bones of animals so that their skeletons...