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...Muammar Gaddafi revealed his Quaker ancestry b) Gerhard Schroeder put out the eternal flame at Israel's Yad Vashem c) Vicente Fox is kind of foxy...
While the consensus favors a fat connection, other explanations haven't been ruled out. One is chemical pollution in the food chain--specifically, DDE, a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT, and PCBs, once used as flame retardants in electrical equipment. Both chemicals are plausible suspects because they mimic hormones that play a key role in the development of the reproductive system. Beyond that, says Dr. Walter Rogan, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C., both chemicals are ubiquitous in the environment, and they persist in the body for years after exposure...
Like Queen Victoria and Jackie Kennedy, Yoko Ono was fated to be a Major Public Widow, making her way in the world while hauling around the husband's eternal flame. But because she was also the woman blamed for breaking up the Beatles, Yoko was Victoria without the authority, Jackie without the glamour. Now 67, she's briskly tending her own flame too. She cooperated fully with "Yes Yoko Ono," a show that opened last week at Japan Society in New York City and will travel to six cities in the U.S. and Canada. It reverently brings together her lifetime...
...settled into a seat at the back of the hall. "Let us study," Wiesel began quietly. "To enter the text is to be warmed by an ancient flame...
Distracted from southward migration by the porch lights at Olympic Stadium, clouds of BOGONG MOTHS clustered around every light source, including the Eternal Flame. Consequently, at midnight, the torch was dimmed and stadium lights were turned off. Visitors were assured that the moths are harmless if ingested--tasting "somewhere between a pecan and a walnut...