Word: supermarket
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...comes from whales that can't be hunted legally. Investigators bought whale meat in retail markets all over ! Japan. Using DNA tests, researchers found that some of it came from fin whales, humpbacks and other protected species. "We were stunned to find humpback being sold in a Hiroshima supermarket," says Don White, president of Earthtrust, the Hawaii-based group that sponsored the study. "They've been protected since...
...satellite dish on the front lawn traditionally signaled one of two things: here is a house so far away from civilization that the cable company won't even bother coming, or here is a homeowner rich enough to afford the most expensive toy in the media supermarket...
...York, is the sort of town satellite-TV companies dream about. Located 70 miles northwest of Albany, in the midst of the Adirondack Mountains, the tiny community (pop. 301) has no traffic lights and no full- time doctor. Many telephones are still on party lines, and the nearest , supermarket is 50 miles away. Television too has largely bypassed the town. Arietta is too remote and unprofitable to be wired for cable, and a good antenna brings in only two or, at most, three stations. Between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. during the summer, because of solar interference, even those stations...
...years, there have been at least 85 cancer-causing pesticides in processed foods on supermarket shelves -- such as raisins, cooking oil, tomato paste and flour -- but the federal government is only now getting serious about a crackdown. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today agreed to review and possibly ban 36 pesticides within two years, then set its sights on 49 more as part of an out-of-court settlement with consumer advocates, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The losers in the deal, the American Crop Protection Association, accused the NRDC of trying to ''create a national food scare...
...first-year candidates for the council are as generic as supermarket-brand cereal. Every first-year campaign poster is printed on the same copy-store flourescent orange paper; each reveals little or no information about the candidate. Therefore, I decided to perform my civic duty the hard way, investigating some of the declared candidates for the benefit of the electorate...