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...Schwarcz, director of McGill University's Office for Chemistry and Society, explains why. The difference, he says, "is that ingested chromium-6 encounters hydrochloric acid in the stomach's gastric juices, and is converted to chromium-3, which is innocuous." Anyway, he points out, "no single toxin causes the wide array of conditions that afflict Hinkley residents...
Lara Croft, Here I Come The karate master, a mean-looking dude with a Fu Manchu mustache, attacks me from the left. I knock him out with a swift kick to the stomach. Kazaaam! He comes back at me from the right, so I retaliate with a masterful chop to the chin. Pow! This fight sequence is playing out on my TV screen, but it's really me in the picture. Thanks to EyeToy, Sony's latest advance on the computer game, anyone can be an action hero. Launched in the U.K. last week and due across Europe this summer...
...sandwich shops surrounded the office building, so I embarked on an important quest to find something to eat. After wandering for about 15 minutes, and encountering only ham, ham and cheese and tuna fish sandwiches (none of which I eat), I returned to the office building with an empty stomach. But before I entered, something caught my eye—the Starbucks directly across the street. Never did I think I would so happy to see a Starbucks, and this one even serves grilled cheese! No one in my office—which practically shuts down...
...were in thrall to the supposed achievements of the Soviet Union - to state baldly that Stalin was a "disgusting murderer." It is because Orwell was unflinching in his opposition to all the totalitarianisms of the past century that he has such a bewildering range of acolytes - liberals unable to stomach the idea that one race should lord it over another, socialists for whom his willingness to fight fascism in Spain is an inspiration, conservatives who are certain that had he lived, he would have become a true cold warrior, determined to roll back communism wherever its poisoned shoots took root...
...Japan has long butted heads with the International Whaling Commission, claiming that the body's strict antiwhaling regulations are an affront to whale-loving Japanese culture?and taste buds. Last week, however, the country's Fisheries Agency proposed a compromise that the whale-eating lobby may be able to stomach: allow the meat of beached whales to be used for human consumption. The agency claims the policy change?carcasses of whales that flop ashore must be incinerated or buried under current law?is motivated primarily by a need to save money. In January 2002, for example, officials spent more than...