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...fact we were never alone for a minute. One day we went to the market and bought various kinds of fruits. Then we drove down to the bank of the Volga to have a light lunch of fruit and buns. That day was filmed by the KGB and shown as a typical day in the life of Sakharov. The films depicting Sakharov's life that I saw in America were edited to create the impression of a normal life, a normal state of health. Actually, it is one big hoax, a horrible lie. Another time, the world could watch films...
...taking things out of our soda like caffeine or sodium, nor are we adding things like fruit juices; Jolt soda is like the way it was when soda was just simply soda," says marketing supervisor Jane M. Nickson. "Response [to the product] has been overwhelming...
...doin' Bob?" I asked between scoops of Fruit Loops...
...Food and Drug Administration approved the process for harvested wheat and potatoes more than 20 years ago; dried spices and slaughtered pork were added to the list in the 1980s. Last April the agency gave the go-ahead for irradiating fruits and vegetables, and a furor erupted. Despite the FDA's consent, the process until now has been used mainly to preserve herbs and spices. But last week gamma ray-treated fruit made its first U.S. appearance when Laurenzo's Farmer's Market in North Miami Beach began offering irradiated Puerto Rican mangoes. The FDA is now considering whether...
Such pests are invading the U.S. in increasing numbers, with sometimes dire effects on agriculture, forests, public health and even people's homes. The Mediterranean fruit fly, which threatened California citrus crops in 1980-82, is thought to have arrived in a tourist's peach. Africanized "killer" bees, sighted for the first time on U.S. soil last year near Bakersfield, Calif., probably hitchhiked there from Latin America aboard a ship laden with oil- drilling equipment. Asian tiger mosquitoes, carriers of dengue, a viral infection that causes chills, headache and muscle pains, were intercepted near Houston last year. They have since...