Word: soaks
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...release the vitamins until they are deep in the epidermis. Estee Lauder is using "photosomes," which pop open only when exposed to ultraviolet radiation, in its Re-Nutriv Lifting Serum (available in November). Another approach, favored by Osmotics of Denver, depends on transdermal patches to allow vitamin C to soak directly into the skin...
...throngs planning to gather in Washington and Hong Kong to countless individuals ready to join in via the Internet. The theme is finding solutions to global warming: cars will be banned from some streets in Rome; Mexico City will send 30,000 students out to plant seedlings (new trees soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide); and the Earth Day Energy Fast campaign, based in Los Angeles, will urge folks to shut off appliances for 24 hours. For a rundown on events, visit www.earthday.net But saving the planet obviously isn't a one-day proposition. Here's a sampling...
...driver fatigue and save about 100 lives a years - has managed to tick off both truckers and safety advocates. The safety folks say it could make the roads either more or less dangerous; truckers say it could lead to either more or less work; and everyone agrees it will soak the economy. The rule would limit truckers to one 12-hour shift per 24 hours. The current regulation allows for 10-hour shifts followed by eight hours' rest (or a maximum 16 hours per day of driving). Some drivers pile on the shifts in consecutive days to achieve their maximum...
...told, we spend $1.7 billion a year on those pills and capsules--most commonly vitamin C, which originally attracted attention as a supposed cold remedy. But interest in these supplements has been fanned in recent years by hints that antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and selenium soak up free radicals, those by-products of metabolism that can damage cells and have been implicated in a wide variety of diseases, from cancer and cardiovascular disease to Alzheimer's, as well as in aging...
...also tells us that St. Augustine's sexual repression is the cause of the Catholic Church's current birth control policy. Allyn attributes the reform movements in the 1830s and 1840s to a crusade against sexuality in society. Allyn claims the actual intention of the graham cracker was to "soak up men's sexual desires," giving an entirely different interpretation of smores. Shockingly, Allyn claims the only cause of abolition was a deep-seated fear of miscegenation...