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...food experts sniff a change in the air. The series of recent high-visibility incidents of E. coli poisoning has heightened public concerns about contaminated beef--and inspired food producers to experiment with such alternative sterilization techniques as steam pasteurization of beef carcasses and exposure of food to ozone, a highly reactive form of oxygen. Yet while these methods are cheaper and do not require the handling of radioactive material or disposal of nuclear wastes, they fail a critical test. Aside from cooking, only irradiation is penetrating enough, say the experts, to come close to meeting new federal guidelines mandating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUKING YOUR BURGERS? | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...Using the heat from the POX zone, steam is reacted with most of the carbon monoxide to form additional hydrogen and carbon dioxide...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fuel Cells: Unleashing the Power of Hydrogen | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

DIED. JOYCE WETHERED, 96, unflappable first lady of the links; in London. Unknown and not yet 19, Wethered easily outshot Cecil Leitch at the English Ladies' championship in 1920. Her textbook swing and unswerving concentration (once, a passing steam locomotive failed to distract her eye from the ball) won her four more of those titles and four British championships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 8, 1997 | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Sure enough, the unthinkable happened. Over toward the corner of the store I found a large kettle-type structure, bubbling and giving off steam. So there it is: Bruegger's puny, bland, generic bagels are also boiled. Maybe it is that New York water after...

Author: By Dan S. Abel, | Title: A Crisis of Bagels | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

Danha Nguyen, the co-owner of Cathay Oriental Gifts and Fashions, said he is confident that the state's economy is picking up steam and even acknowledged that life in Chelsea is getting a little brighter...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Chelsea Vendors Upbeat | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

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