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...some evidence suggests that the mussel population in Lake Erie may have peaked. "There are many ways to kill the zebra mussel," observes Ohio State entomologist Susan Fisher. "The trick is to do it selectively" without wiping out other aquatic life. Fisher has recently found that minute traces of potassium, nontoxic to other organisms, reliably send zebra mussels into fatal shock. Paints laced with potassium, she speculates, might protect underwater structures from mussel infestation. Physiologist Jeffrey Ram of Wayne State University in Detroit makes an even more devious suggestion. Zebra-mussel spawning, he notes, is triggered by odors wafting from...
Just how much is the very life of a child worth? A 10 cents packet of salt, sugar and potassium can prevent a child from dying of diarrhea. Yet every day in the developing world more than 40,000 children under the age of five die of diarrhea, measles, malnutrition and other preventable causes. An extra $2.5 billion a year could save the lives of 50 million children over the next decade. That is roughly equal, children's advocates note, to the amount that the world's military establishments, taken together, shell out every...
...into her arm and started a harmless saline solution flowing through the tube. Then he sat back and watched the monitor as she pushed a big red button at the base of the machine. Immediately, the saline was replaced by a pain killer; one minute later came the poison potassium chloride. Within five minutes Janet Adkins, an Alzheimer's disease sufferer who feared an excruciating future, was dead of heart stoppage...
While this is no piece of grand nutritional wizardry, the dining halls do provide an abundance of fruit at each meal. Considering apples at Christy's go for about $12 or $13, we should all take advantage of the low fat, carbohydrate and potassium-rich bananas, apples and oranges at the dining halls...
...contraband chemicals are not all from the U.S., or even from other industrialized nations. Much of the ethyl ether was manufactured in Brazil. The potassium permanganate, normally used as a water purifier, came from China, which is the world's leading producer...