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Last week it was reported that aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is sponsoring a study that pays volunteers $1,000 apiece to ingest perchlorate--a pollutant found in rocket fuel--every day for six months...
...about showing up these companies for what they really are." Many of the plaintiffs--some of whom are unlikely to live to collect any damages--agreed. "No amount of money is going to change the way I have to eat," says throat-cancer victim Amodeo, who has to ingest nutrition through a hole in his stomach. "Fifteen cents, $15 million--it doesn't change...
...antioxidants are great - and that lots of antioxidants are even better. Even in light of the academy report, the bottom line, or RDA, remains the same: Hang onto your gelcaps, because nutritionists still recommend 75 to 110 milligrams of C each day and 15 milligrams of E. How you ingest that allowance is up to you: Chomp on a bunch of broccoli and eat a nice piece of liver - or go ahead and take that (one) vitamin pill...
...club may have settled on an identity by then, but other aspects of club life needed tweaking--membership. For the majority of the 19th century, prospective members were forced to ingest large quantities of pudding. But the process of "running" for the Pudding became a notoriously awful one in 1873. John W. Farlow, who wrote about his 1873 initiation, remembered his running week vividly 60 years later. Every "neophyte" was required to stay in a mentor's room for the week, speak only to him and run everywhere. "The weather was cold, wet and slippery, and as there were...
...produced a natural toxin that killed corn borers, and allowed farmers to forgo the use of insecticides. On Thursday, however, a Cornell University laboratory study published in the journal Nature announced some bad news: The corn produces a wind-borne pollen that can kill monarch butterflies if they ingest it. As for the future of genetically engineered crops, the finding has raised concern, but scientists are not yet ready to sound the alarm bell full blast...