Word: potatoe
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...only other score of the contest came early in the second period. After a battle for the puck in the right corner, Harvard sophomore Ethan Philpott managed to send a cross-ice pass out to MacDonald, who was positioned just inside the blue line. Like a hot potato, MacDonald quickly released a bullet pass in front of the net to linemate Stu Swenson, who knocked in the final nail in the Union coffin...
...caused a condition delicately referred to as "anal leakage." And while most other artificial food additives are eaten by the milligram, olestra would be gulped grams at a time, making it what nutritionists call a "macroingredient"--it would, for example, account for about one-third, by weight, of every potato chip...
...approval. Despite scores of clinical trials in animals and humans and hundreds of thousands of pages of studies, they argue that no one can be certain that olestra won't be a danger to public health. Besides, says Michael Jacobson, cspi's executive director, "we don't need olestra potato chips. It's crazy to add a substance to the food supply that makes people sick...
OKAY, NO MORE JOKES ABOUT FECAL URGENCY AND ANAL leakage. It's mouth-feel time. We have been standing around, five slightly nervous Time journalists who have volunteered to taste potato chips cooked in olestra. Because the stuff has not been approved by the FDA, each of us has signed a Procter & Gamble "informed consent" release, which we notice with some discomfort bears the 800 number of a doctor to call in case of emergency. This fellow, whose name is Sweeney, will chopper in with a medevac team if something goes wrong. Or so we assume...
...MISTER POTATO HEAD Celebrity spud scores big in holiday run on Toy Story toys...