Word: phosphorus
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Soda lovers, before your next gulp, consider this: A preliminary report on men suggests that drinking 4 1/2 cans a day of fructose-filled pop may cause the body to lose calcium and phosphorus--two minerals essential for strong bones...
...peasant rite. Doctors in grubby white coats offer herbal medicines, acupuncture or blood-pressure tests. Vendors proffer savory kabobs or key chains. Children rent old-fashioned roller skates for a few yuan, while their elder brothers play badminton without any nets. The throng does not disperse until the blazing phosphorus lights dim near midnight...
...more than $62,000 over the years as well as $419,000 to the Republican Party since 1991. Dole opposed a plan last winter to tax Florida cane growers 2' for each pound of their product to help restore the Everglades, which is dying from the phosphorus runoff of sugar plantations like Fanjul's. But to do nothing for the Everglades would have crippled his presidential ambitions in the crucial state of Florida. So instead of assessing cane growers like Fanjul, Dole struck a compromise to take $200 million from the general treasury for Everglades restoration and thus scored...
...growers, both Southern cane farmers and Midwestern beet growers, outfoxed not only congressional reformers but also a high-powered coalition of sugar and sweetener users such as Coca-Cola and Hershey Foods. These opponents were joined by environmental groups, particularly those in Florida, where phosphorus-laden runoff from sugarcane fields has been turning stretches of the Everglades into cattail-clogged waters...
...sore eyes. There was "a horrible smell, like burning plastic," said retired farmer Norie Okamoto, who informed the police. The cultists got off with a warning, and the villagers were furious, especially when the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper disclosed that police samples of the soil around the compound contained organic phosphorus compounds that are potential residues of sarin, matching residues in Matsumoto--and now those found in the Tokyo subway...