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...bacterial strains, including typhoid, cholera, hepatitis and the three known types of polio virus. According to Gruenberg, bacteria levels routinely reach 1,000 times the maximum level set by the EPA as safe for bodily contact. Though no one uses the water for drinking or irrigation, infected drifts of foam from Mexican laundry detergents are sometimes scattered by the wind, and Cottrell fears an epidemic is inevitable. At greatest risk are illegal immigrants, who occasionally venture into the polluted suds to swim under the border's chain link fence...
Some scholars see more foam than substance in Katz's notion. "Hunters and gatherers did not have the pottery to put stuff in to soak," objects Anthropology Curator Robert Carneiro of the American Museum of Natural History. Other academics point out that the theory has been suggested before and remains speculative. But Katz claims no proprietary insight. "We all know nothing is so simple as a single cause," he observes. Having a tall cool one, however, "is maybe a more important part of the process toward domestication than we had previously thought...
...promises to be this spring's hot number for teens and tots: a foam-padded T shirt that instantly transforms the wearer into an incredible hulk. Already, 40,000 of the Power-Ts (at a hefty $19.95 each) have been snapped up for children eager to flaunt fake pecs...
...nothing more than a brief bout with a safely biological "swimming sperm and Fallopian tube" course that has put students to sleep for generations. Or, hardly more energizing, it may be a three-hour course taught by a gym teacher, followed by a display of condoms or foam brought along by a speaker from Planned Parenthood. In Kansas, the curriculums for phys ed, drivers' ed and sex ed are all overseen by the same state board of education official. "No matter what is written in the curriculum, there is not much going on out there," says Mary Lee Tatum...
...Patty Production Assistant arrives on the set of Grover, a docudrama based on the life of our most complex and misunderstood President, Grover Cleveland. She enters the makeup trailer, where Sam Star, playing the elderly Cleveland, has been artificially aging for three hours. His foam rubber jowels have now reached floor level...