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...doom. As humans burn more fossil fuels, more carbon dioxide (CO2) enters the atmosphere. CO2 traps the sun's heat, causing a warmer climate, rising sea levels and drastic changes in weather. The one bright spot seemed to be that because plants "breathe" CO2, they might be expected to thrive...
Other dangers begin once the fish is out of water. Because bacteria that live on fish are adapted to withstand the cool and cold waters of lakes and oceans, they can thrive in temperatures cold enough to preserve other foods. Such microbes will quickly spoil the catch of the day, unless it is confined without delay to temperatures close to freezing. Even under the best conditions, most fresh fish lasts only seven to 12 days. But it frequently takes as long as seven days for fish to make the journey from the fisherman's net to the supermarket, where...
Mothers, single and otherwise, are heroic in the ways, large and small, they make up to their children for absent, negligent or destructive fathers. Children can thrive in many circumstances. But there is a danger in the current attitude that plays down the deficit with which a child enters the world with half a family and that places a woman's self-fulfillment first. Hard as it is to hear the biological clock ticking and not be able to do anything about it, gratifying the yearning to have a child is not the same as satisfying the other indexes...
This is all antithetical to the Bee. They thrive on not talking. That's the point. They don't want to keep their club a total secret (Honey East lists the club on the resume that she submitted to a Jackson, Mississippi beauty pageant), but they're not truly the elite until they shut people out. Beauty pageants, cocktail parties, a stir of rumors along the Eliot corridors--this sort of publicity is good...
...foods (including the seriously disgusting cod liver oil), has been routinely added to milk since the 1930s. But too much of the vitamin is no bonus; the symptoms range from fatigue to urinary-tract stones to kidney malfunction -- and, in infants, the condition known as "failure to thrive," which can lead to death...