Word: poison
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...addition, people with eating disorders are not the only ones HUDS serves, and we as a school should make an effort to promote healthy eating for all of our students. I often see people filling a plate with mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese, and while neither food is poison on its own, a high-fat, high-carbohydrate meal without enough vitamins or a full complement of protein can cause weight gain and feelings of lethargy. Also, a tendency to strictly subdivide foods into a “healthy” and an “unhealthy” category...
...been using since August with her husband and three children. Moskalenko, who pursues the Russian government in international courts for human-rights abuses, now works mostly out of Strasbourg since Russian federal prosecutors sought but failed to disbar her in Moscow. Before authorities found the poison, Moskalenko had complained of suddenly deteriorating health - a frightening parallel to the case of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko, her onetime client, who was poisoned by polonium in Britain late...
...What angers villagers is that the pollution is there for anyone to see. Le Thi Nung doesn't need a scientist in a lab coat to tell her that the river is full of poison. Her village in Dong Nai's district of Long Thanh once depended upon fishing and small farms. "After Vedan opened, the pollution killed all the fish so I had nothing to feed my seven children," she complains, adding that the factory brought few of the promised benefits, only cancers and stomach ailments. With no other options, Nung's 19-year-old daughter married a Taiwanese...
...story, "Harvard Chess Club Ties Beijing Team," misstated the name of a chess maneuver. It is "Poison Pawn" not "Poison Pond...
Making use of maneuvers like the Sicilian and the Poison Pond, five Harvard undergraduates took on a team from the University of Beijing in the one game of intellect that has transcended national borders for decades. But in the end, the chess match—held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday—ended in a disappointing 5-5 tie. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...