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VitaminsFunction Where Found Vitamin A maintenance of normal vision and butter, whole milk, egg yolks mucous membranes Vitamin D regulates calcium intake and pro- liver, butter, whole milk motes bone mineralization Vitamin E maintains cell membranes and pro- nuts, seeds, whole grains motes healthy skin Vitamin K needed by liver for formation of cereals, dairy products, meats blook-clotting factors Vitamin C helps body fight against colds, may citrus fruits, broccoli lower risks for certain cancers Thiamin important in energy metabolism cereals Riboflavin important in energy production liver, milk Niacin needed by hundreds of enzymes for grain products, meat, poultry...
Working from photographs -- whether specially taken for the painting or clipped from the press -- produced some of Sickert's most engrossing images. Among them are his 1929 portrait of the novelist Hugh Walpole and The Miner, circa 1935: a man just out of the pit, fiercely kissing his wife, an abrupt and passionate painting imbued with sooty grain that reminds one of late Goya. Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby...
...mountain climber, which is why Lake of the Clouds is off limits to the public. The underground trek involves scrambling through narrow passages, navigating around steep crevasses and using ropes to descend two drop-offs -- the second of which encompasses a 60-m (200 ft.) cliff. Turn off the miner's light on your helmet, and you cannot see your hand in front of your face...
...elementary school that Serb militia forces have turned into a detention camp for 4,000 people, mostly Muslim men. Half the captives live outdoors in makeshift lean-tos; they all ^ get the same dirty water and use the same three toilets. One inmate, Hajudin Zubovic, a 28-year-old miner, told how a dozen or more prisoners at a ceramics factory in the area had been forced to stand in the sun all afternoon on July 24 and Serbian guards beat 10 of them to death, then fired rifles into a room filled with more than 150 men. Says Zubovic...
...been traces of semen in his underwear and on his wash cloth. There weren't. The prosecution claimed that Coleman waded through a 10-in.-deep creek, a charge it supported by pointing out that the legs of his jeans were wet. But, observes Coleman's uncle, disabled coal miner Roger Lee Coleman, "his long underwear wasn't wet; his socks wasn't wet; the inside of his boots wasn't wet either...