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...sounds like a cousin to the stuff that causes athlete's foot. But last month the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington group sometimes dubbed the Food Police, asked the FDA and the E.U. to restrict Marlow from describing Quorn as mushroom-like. ("Not all fungi are mushrooms," the group intones.) Days before its complaint, however, CSPI's testers gave Quorn a "Best Bites" award. They acknowledged--we're not making this up--that it tastes like chicken...
...CARDWELL Fort Myers, Fla. Your list reflected a rather anthropocentric view of the scientific world. More than half the awardees work directly on questions about humans. But many of America's best scientists are not studying human-centered questions. Why no scientists whose research focuses primarily on plants or fungi? Why no inorganic chemists? There is a persistent notion that the science that most directly applies to humans is intellectually superior to less human-centered endeavors. Your unrepresentative cross section of scientists is symptomatic of society's failure to value all of science. TERRY O'BRIEN Pitman...
...blandness of their days and allow them to escape, at least for a few hours, their part-time jobs, trade-school classes and cramped apartments. The vehicle they believe will help them achieve this temporary expansion of their consciousness: majikku masshurumu?magic mushrooms?shriveled bits of psilocybin-filled fungi that will first make them a little nauseous and then incredibly stoned, their world melting into a visual cacophony of whirls, polka-dots and pixels...
...hair and peace, brother. Whereas speed was the drug of choice for legions of hardworking overachievers in the go-go '80s and early '90s, the current generation is increasingly opting to space out through 'shrooms rather than get wired and tuned in with shabu. With vendors selling the dried fungi in head shops, street-corner stands and even over the Internet, scoring mushrooms has become as easy as buying a pack of incense or some herbal tea. Vendors, however, have to walk a fine line. In the case of mushrooms, it is illegal to extract the active ingredients?in most...
They're the smallest of stowaways, hitching rides on freighters, cruise ships and planes and usually disembarking undetected. They're invasive species, including insects, fish, fungi and plants. Their variety, and the damage they inflict on local species and crops, is growing apace with the doubling in U.S. foreign trade over the past decade. In the U.S., they cause upwards of $100 billion in economic losses annually, according to Cornell researcher David Pimentel. Among recent invaders is giant salvinia, a freshwater weed infesting lakes and waterways in the South and West. The Asian long-horn beetle, pictured at right...