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...into how Ray earned her $14,000 salary, but he still faces legal problems over the matter from a grand jury probe and a Justice Department investigation. As for Liz, she insisted that she never would have gone public with her relationship with Hays had she known it "would mushroom into such a gigantic thing...
...considered safe simply because a pet animal nibbles on it with no ill effects; it could still be harmful to humans. He also suggests avoiding smoke from burning foliage because even vapors may carry poisons. "Remember," he adds, "heating and cooking do not always destroy toxic substances, the mushroom being a prime example...
Helping the private sector is one of President Ford's primary aims. "We are at a critical point in our history," says the President, "a point where we can either allow federal spending and federal deficits to mushroom, or we can decide to restrain the growth of federal spending and restore the vitality of our private economy...
...natural substances are more lethal than the toxin of the poisonous mushroom Amanita phalloides. Commonly known as the death cap, it causes, after a day's delay, severe abdominal pain, followed by diarrhea, cramps and vomiting and finally liver failure and central nervous damage. In Europe, where mushroom collecting has long been a favorite hobby of gourmets, the hard-to-identify Amanita phalloides accounts for perhaps 95% of the dozens of deaths that occur every year from mushroom poisoning of some kind. Until recently the death cap was considered relatively rare in North America, and only a few cases...
...Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control reports new evidence that Amanita phalloides may not be as uncommon in the New World as hitherto believed. For example, in October two people died of mushroom poisoning-a 37-year-old Martha's Vineyard resident who collected Amanita phalloides in his backyard and a 70-year-old Bronx man who picked the mushrooms in a New York park and ate them...