Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exhibitions at the fair ranged from the Mail Communications Center's, which gave away souvenir bottle openers and pamphlets with information about their services, to an enormous multicolored box whose flashing lights called attention to the Harvard University Metropolitan Area Network, a newly developed fiber optics communications system that New England Telephone is testing at several Harvard offices...
...dust from around the hole once the drilling got under way. To see inside the vault, technicians modified a miniature remote-controlled video camera so it could be inserted into the 3 1/2-in.-wide entrance hole. The camera, originally designed to probe the interior of nuclear reactors, provided fiber- optic light without introducing any heat into the chamber. Over the site was a makeshift scaffold and the flags of Egypt and the National Geographic Society, the principal sponsor of the $250,000 project...
Almost every industry group is touting nutrition. The Washington Apple Commission, a growers' organization based in Wenatchee, calls its fruit the "original health food" and asserts that the natural fiber in apples is an appetite suppressor. The Potato Board is pushing its vegetable as "multivitamins with minerals." Even the Sugar Association has something positive to stress: the sweetener's low 16 calories a teaspoon and its placement on the Food and Drug Administration's "safe" list, a claim artificial alternatives cannot make. "Which would you rather put on your kids' cereal...
...sure, the unsavory reputations of certain foods are undeserved. "Potatoes have complex carbohydrates, fiber and are a good source of vitamin C," says Dr. Walter Mertz, director of the U.S.D.A.'s Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, Md. "As a basic food, they're excellent." Some food scientists point out that there is no such thing as a "bad" food. "Every food, even sugar, meat or eggs, has its place as part of a balanced and varied diet, as long as it is not taken in excess," Mertz observes...
...sugar ads say, that the sweetener causes heart disease, cancer and diabetes. But "it is not 'perfectly safe,' " emphasizes Dr. William Connor of the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. "It's a major cause of tooth decay." Besides, he adds, sugar is hardly nutritious since it contains "no fiber, vitamins, minerals or proteins. You get only calories." Liebman takes issue with the National Dairy Board's campaign for its emphasis on whole milk and cheeses, despite their being good sources of calcium. Consumers should be urged instead to drink low-fat milk and eat smaller portions of cheese...