Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Potassium permanganate] will oxidize the manganese and the iron to precipitate out," DiVasta said. "Right now it's dissolved in the water, and you can't remove it, so it's just going through the system...
...people had illegally hoarded down through the years. Instead, because the move made it vastly easier to unload illegally dug diamonds, it further spurred the stampede to Lunda Norte. Cafunfo, a town of 5,000 on the Cuango River, mushroomed to 50,000 people, who live mainly in corrugated-iron shacks. "It's like the Wild West," says Gallegos, who visited the region recently. "The law of the gun prevails...
...These recommendations by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine are very irresponsible," says Dr. Ronald Kleinman, chair of the Committee on Nutrition for the American Academy of Pediatrics. The academy agrees that breast milk or iron-fortified infant formula is best for the first 12 months of life. "But we don't say that babies are going to be harmed by cow's milk or that there is a danger to them," Kleinman notes. "Dairy products are not perfect foods, but they are concentrated with many of the forms of nutrients that children need to grow well...
...sense, write about themselves when they put together their list. Thirty-three of the people on it are writers, publishers or literary agents, or somehow involved in the publishing world. Some of them write controversial things, such as Robert Bly ("a minor poet" who became a big deal with Iron John) and others merely head up the monoliths of the literary world, such as Rebecca Sinkler at the New York Times Book Review...
...Wallace-Crabbe's poetry is so serious, though nearly all is thought-provoking. His reading included humorous pieces through which, Wallace said, he attempts to "give dignity to commonplace things." Among those "commonplace things." Among those "commonplace things" were artichokes, bananas, galvanized corrugated iron, can openers and men's underwear--the last item earned chuckles from the audience and a wry smile from Wallace-Crabbe's wife Marianne...