Word: leached
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...daring young actor who had accomplished it. What he seemed to be saying was that he had not yet purified those performances of autobiography, had not yet completed the process of total reinvention that was the largest promise acting held out to him as a young man. Born Archibald Leach in bleak Bristol, England, son of a drinking, defeated father and a mother who was placed in a madhouse when he was ten, he was a lonely, latchkey child, who decided on a life in show biz the first time he visited backstage. "A dazzling land of smiling, jostling people...
...Congressman Jim Leach, the Iowa Republican, was a terrific public servant for 30 years. He was always independent, always scrupulously honest. He lost this year, and the manner of his losing is instructive. He refused to allow the Republican National Committee to distribute a negative mailing about his opponent. He called Ken Mehlman, then the r.n.c. chair, and threatened to caucus with the Democrats if such negative mailings didn't stop. They stopped, but the Congressman lost narrowly to an academic named Dave Loebsack, who had similarly refused to attack him. A former foreign service officer, Leach would make...
...issue are contaminants in plastics used to make the toys. Environmentalists have long argued that some of these chemicals can leach out and harm children, pointing to animal studies that link the substances to birth defects, cancer and developmental abnormalities. Those warnings are hotly disputed by the chemical industry and toy manufacturers, which cite stacks of scientific studies that have found the plastics to be safe at federally approved levels. But the issue has gained traction on the strength of new evidence from independent and university-sponsored studies. The European Union has banned some chemicals in toys since...
...they like with the information unless a customer expressly forbids it.Many private investigators aren't crazy about the bill either. While most support pretexting laws, they would like some wiggle room to track down deadbeat dads, creditors and others trying to shirk the law. For instance the 1999 Gramm-Leach Bliley Act prohibits pretexting specifically to obtain financial information, but it includes an exception for insurance companies investigating fraud to make sure claims are accurate. Private investigators would like a similar exception to help them catch bad actors. "The anti-fraud interests are very strong," said Chris Hoofnagle, senior staff...
...understood. During normal youthful maturation the body readily absorbs calcium, which helps to build bigger and denser bones. After about age 35, however, the process begins to reverse. The body becomes less able to take in calcium, and the blood, which needs the mineral for other organs, begins to leach it out of bones, leaving them weaker. Women suffer in particular because their bones are smaller and less dense than men's. More important, for reasons that are not yet known, menopause speeds up bone loss. Osteoporosis is the excessive form of this natural process...