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...NYPIRG study indicates that hundreds of chemicals, many of them carcinogens, have been dumped into the Hudson for years. Normal water purification processes do little to filter these toxic chemicals, leaving them in drinking water. The study found traces of the harmful chemicals in household tap water. "Any amount of a carcinogen should be considered unsafe. We don't know what the threshold levels are," Hang said...
More than just a gleam in an advertising man's eye, hot tubs actually exist and are widely used in such areas as Santa Barbara, California. The tub itself is basically a California wine vat adapted for bathing purposes by the addition of pump, filter, heater, water-jets, and lots of water. While some claim that the modern hot tub originated in the '50s among rural dropouts in the Santa Barbara Hills, tubs did not attract much notice in California until four or five years...
...rival the meteoric rise of Disini, a Marcos buddy whose wife is a cousin of Imelda's and former governess to the First Couple's three children. In the past six years, Disini has transformed an otherwise undistinguished company, Herdis Management & Investment Corp., from a small cigarette-filter manufacturing plant into a conglomerate empire of 33 separate enterprises with assets totaling about $200 million. These firms, among other things, manufacture textiles, explore for oil and run charter air flights. Recently Disini acquired the Philippine agency for Caterpillar construction equipment and a large block of shares in the Philippine...
Herdis' extraordinary expansion seems in large part to be the result of favored treatment by Philippine officials. Not only has Disini received government guarantees for his loans-totaling $160 million-but favorable tariff treatment has also permitted his cigarette-filter business to become a near monopoly...
...blood pumped from the heart flows to the kidneys for filtration and removal of wastes. Exercise causes the body to shunt more blood to the muscles, reducing the flow to the kidneys by as much as 50%. But the kidneys continue to work at the same rate and apparently filter more protein out of a smaller volume of blood. Exercise also seems to cause constriction of the efferent arterioles, the vessels that lead out of the glomeruli, the kidney's filtration units. The result is a backup that increases pressure in the glomeruli and makes them more permeable, allowing...