Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Remember the good old days when Americans did not know too much about what they were eating and drinking? People would nod approvingly as they pushed their carts through supermarkets. The fruits and vegetables were piled high in glistening mounds, the pristine boxes and shiny cans crammed on shelves, the chickens sitting plumply in refrigerated cases, and the fish shimmering on crystalline beds of ice. The entire scene seemed drenched in wholesomeness...
...some animals do, anticipate earthquakes days before they occur. His house in Athens has no TV and no phone. Says drummer Berry: "The three of us are just as average as you can get, but Michael is obviously an unusual person. He is different. I don't know if he has hot water in his house even now. We would all be kind of boring if it weren...
When people decide to cook for themselves at home, they often do not know exactly what to do. Instead of thawing food in the refrigerator, they leave it out on the kitchen counter where the exterior will warm up faster than the interior, thus promoting bacterial growth. Novice cooks also make the mistake of slicing raw meat and chopping vegetables on the same cutting board, encouraging the transfer of contaminants from one food to another. Dr. Robert Tauxe, of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, points out another no- no: "Sometimes people will take chicken out to the barbecue...
...certified lab. If the level is too high, they can investigate ways to deal with the problem or switch to bottled water for drinking and cooking. Even then, caution is called for: some bottled waters contain many of the same contaminants that tap water does. The only way to know what is in the bottled water is to have it tested...
...blown out of the sky over Scotland by a bomb on the night of Dec. 21. In the wake of new disclosures last week suggesting that authorities on both sides of the Atlantic had received several detailed and credible | alerts of a terrorist threat, many relatives want to know exactly what American and British transport officials knew -- and when they knew it. And then they want to know why nothing was done about...