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...They're huge, they're fat, they're enormous," he said of the envelopes, estimating that each one weighs more than a pound...
...caused cancer in laboratory animals, then it could cause cancer in humans. In addition, because no one completely understands how toxins trigger cancer, scientists chose a mathematical model that assumes a linear relationship between the amount of toxin consumed and the incidence of malignancy. In other words, if a pound of dioxin caused cancer in 50 out of 100 subjects, then half a pound would trigger 25 cases...
...dissatisfaction is particularly acute today. Last August, Cuba tightened its rationing measures because of Soviet aid cutbacks and the long-standing U.S. embargo. Every Cuban is entitled to only two rolls a day and less than a pound of meat every nine days. Particularly painful to the fashion-conscious young is rationing that limits them to just one new dress, a pair of pants and a pair of dress shoes a year. Grandmothers hand over their yearly ration of textile coupons to the young; mothers sell their gold jewelry for consumer goods like TVs and radios. "Those under...
...side. Last summer raging fires consumed 98,000 acres of spruce around Tok in the Alaskan interior. But this year villagers are harvesting a bumper crop of morels, wild mushrooms springing up with abandon on the charred forest floor. The delicacy, which sells in specialty shops for $14 a pound fresh and as much as $200 a pound dried, is in great demand in tony restaurants. When Tok folk learned they could make as much as $20 an hour gathering morels for wholesale buyers from Seattle and Vancouver, "they went crazy," says Aaron Schutt, 18, a waiter and part-time...
...20th century, it could be argued, has been devoted to ingenious production and disposal of human corpses. But the scary thing is not that eye gougings and vivisections and meals of human flesh may, occasionally, happen. The scary thing, the thing that ought to make the heart pound and the skin go cold and tingly, is that somehow we find this fun to watch...