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Britain's National Rivers Authority has been especially active. Its interest persuaded the electronics industry to come up with a briefcase-size monitor that can be used on a riverbank to measure the amount of dissolved oxygen and ammonia in the water, along with its acidity and turbidity. The authority also spurred the development of a remote-sensing water monitor, as well as an experimental technique that injects iron into stream beds to neutralize polluting phosphates. All three inventions are considered good export prospects...
...different, if possible. But no, Los Angeles television just kept pouring raw footage from the remote units onto the screen. It was roughly the equivalent of dumping raw sewage into Santa Monica Bay. In effect, intelligent life-forms -- those organisms struggling to make sense of tragic chaos -- found the oxygen supply to their brains...
Most of the excitement, however, is being generated by a group of vitamins -- C, E and beta carotene, the chemical parent of vitamin A -- that are known as antioxidants. These nutrients appear to be able to defuse the volatile toxic molecules, known as oxygen-free radicals, that are a byproduct of normal metabolism in cells. These molecules are also created in the body by exposure to sunlight, X rays, ozone, tobacco smoke, car exhaust and other environmental pollutants...
...pills. No heart attacks occurred among those in this group who received aspirin along with the beta carotene capsules. The Harvard researchers have begun a trial in 45,000 postmenopausal women to see if a similar effect occurs in women. Scientists speculate that the antioxidant helps prevent those nasty oxygen- free radicals from transforming LDL, the bad form of cholesterol, into an even more menacing artery clogger...
...Republican or Democratic--it has something to do with putting oxygen in the system, [which] is being suffocated," he said...