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...What's a fish pedicure? I didn't have one. I just saw that there was a store near me. It didn't actually ever open up, so maybe the FDA or the food and game commission got to them. Apparently you plunge your feet into water and certain kinds of fish - I think they were called surgeon fish, which sounds disgusting enough - come and eat your disgusting calluses off. Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Best-Selling Author Lisa Scottoline | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

More than 14% of U.S. families--17 million households--struggled to put food on the table last year, according to a USDA report that found Americans' food insecurity at its highest level since the government started keeping statistics on hunger in 1995. Nearly 7 million households skipped meals or experienced disrupted eating patterns. Most food-insecure households saw adults go without food to shield children from hunger, although 500,000 families reported that their children were also affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...late 1950s when the Guatemalan government introduced non-native black bass into the lake's waters believing that hotels and restaurants could lure more tourists if they could offer freshly caught lake fish on their menus. Over the years, however, the bass ate through nearly the entire food chain, including the the young of the rare Pato Poc duck. Their consumption disrupted the ecosystem and destroyed the organisms that would have kept the bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Guatemala's Most Beautiful Lake Turned Ugly | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

Without natural predators, the bacteria needed only a source of food to thrive. That would be phosphorous, which is abundant among the hills and three towering volcanoes around Atitlan. The situation is aggravated by government distribution of chemical fertilizer containing extra phosphorous to poor farmers who liberally apply it to their fields. Widespread deforestation allows the soil to leach into the lake during Guatemala's six-month-long rainy season. (See more about Guatemala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Guatemala's Most Beautiful Lake Turned Ugly | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

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