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...Even a poison secreted by South American frogs and used by tribes like the Piaroa to make deadly blowgun darts now serves as the basis for a morphine substitute being developed by Chicago-based drug giant Abbott Laboratories. "This is what I call the genetic patrimony of our indigenous peoples," says Venezuelan Science and Technology Vice Minister Marlene Yadira. "And if these communities disappear" because of their poverty, "who will be the source of this knowledge for the companies...
...significantly reduced by simple dietary changes, regular vigorous exercise and reduced alcohol consumption, we as a society owe it to our daughters to alter our lifestyles. We should be thinking much more ambitiously about prevention rather than the costly and disappointingly ineffective strategies of cut or burn and poison that the conventional war on breast cancer has to offer. Trevor Smith, Auckland...
Dead Man’s Poison!!! 1 bottle of whisky
...went by between the band’s two discs, and maybe it shouldn’t come as such a surprise that people might have trouble relating to impersonal lyrics such as: “Not much chance for survival / If the Neon Bible is right / Take the poison of your age / Don’t lick your finger when you turn the page.” Especially since you can’t lick a finger to turn Web-pages. The vid for “Neon Bible” makes me feel old, regardless of the fact...
...because Ahmadinejad is the mouthpiece for the mullahs, who hold the real power in Iran. They hide behind him, sending him out in the world to do their dirty work, just as they send IEDs to Iraq to kill our soldiers. Ahmadinejad is the symbol of the very real poison emanating from Tehran. Symbols can be powerful and consequential and must be confronted. Leonard Schwartzburd, Berkeley, Calif...