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...While we have some idea of how much BPA might leach from a baby bottle, there are intermediate steps between that and how much gets into an infant that we still need to model and establish mathematically," says John Bucher, associate director of the National Toxicology Program, which collaborates with the FDA, NIH and CDC. "And we don't have that yet." The FDA report maintains, for example, that a BPA exposure level of 5 mg/kg per day is acceptable. Health officials have determined that baby bottles can produce anywhere from 7 micrograms/g to 57.7 micrograms/g of BPA. The questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reassessing the Dangers of BPA in Plastics | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

Abandoned ships wreak havoc on the marine ecosystem long after they've sunk. Decaying wreckages leach toxic chemicals like petroleum products and PCBs that remain in the water harming or destroying sea life and potentially enter the food chain, eventually getting ingested by humans. Sometimes dead watercraft foster the growth of new sea life that threatens the pre-existing local ecosystem. On Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, a population explosion of corallimorph, an aggressive creature similar to anemones and coral, killed almost all the coral growing around a long-line fishing vessel that sank in 1991, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Underwater Junkyard | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...that the 700 lb. of toxic PCBs aboard the Oriskany had been secured and would not harm wildlife. But the science regarding the safety of artificial reefing is still being developed. Chris Dorsett, vice president of fishery conservation and management at the Ocean Conservancy, says that toxins can still leach from boats underwater and that these artificial reefs can "increase catchability of species," leading to even more overfishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Underwater Junkyard | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...emotions not unlike mourning, and spouses feel that, too. You have to get through the emotional reaction. This is advice based on research of people who took 20 days and wrote daily about their feelings. By doing that, you can get rid of the toxic stuff that will leach out in your conversations with other people. You can fulminate or say ?why didn?t I? or call your boss names, anything you want. And then at the end of the 20 days, burn what you wrote. And you?re ready to get on with your new life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Say When Someone Loses Their Job | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

...British term for an entirely different meal that includes cold meats, salads and much heartier fare and which is served around 6 p.m. in lieu of dinner. Afternoon tea is served around 3 p.m. and is accompanied by scones, jam and cake and sometimes small sandwiches. Janice Leach, Mill Valley, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

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