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Cows & Grass. When animals, including milk cows, eat plants containing strontium 90, they reject it selectively in favor of calcium. Therefore milk contains less strontium 90 in proportion to calcium than the grass or alfalfa that the cows eat. This means that humans who get most of their calcium from milk will collect less strontium 90 than people who get their calcium direct from vegetable sources...
...balloon aplomb or the Mad-King-of-Bavaria hauteur of Cyril Ritchard. At the same time no one knows more surefire tricks. Ritchard will do as many absurd and outrageous things to keep an audience amused as a desperate father will do to make his four-year-old darling eat...
...dreadfully worried over my tragic mistake. It was far better, I thought, to say I had intentionally caused the Canberra damage rather than to say I had made a mistake and was incompetent." The prosecutor, pointing out that Kenyon by his own admission had been unable to sleep or eat for days, charged that Kenyon had wrecked his plane out of simple fear...
...milk that is provided by the government, later pays 35? for a hot lunch. Though addressed as Prince Charles, he must obey all the rules, keep silent during the meal, and clean his plate. "We never keep a pig bin," says one of his teachers. "The boys have to eat every scrap put in front of them...
...looked so promising that the producers put him on Twenty One. But Charlie's dream has come true with some nightmarish side effects. "Here I am with all this money and celebrity," he lamented last week, "but I don't have the time or appetite to eat." He has lost 10 lbs. since the ordeal began. To carry him through the foodless day, he keeps cooking himself bigger breakfasts in his sunny, $10-a-month, three-room walkup apartment in Greenwich Village...