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...Hall of Opium uses a multimedia approach to trace the history of opium from highly valued ingredient in the pharmacopoeia of the ancients to the scourge of addiction that brought China to its knees in the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a re-creation of a British East India Company clipper ship's hold and its cargo of opium from India destined for the South China coast and a reproduction of a typical 19th century opium den, where a visitor can take himself through the opium smoker's paces (sans opium, of course). Patrons, according to this life-size...
...1990s fought for an autonomous Kurdish state. What We Now Know About Nuts BRISTOL It's a medical mystery that has baffled researchers: Why have peanut allergies tripled in the past decade? For those afflicted - between one in 70 and one in 200 people in the U.K. - even a trace of the nut or its oil can cause hives or, in extreme cases, death. Now researchers at Britain's Bristol...
...band’s peppier songs are undeniably entertaining and technically superb. They are talented instrumentalists and their arrangements are tight, well-balanced and without a trace of pretense...
...force, he will have the first right to the AK-47. Not only is he the patriarch, he's also a war veteran: as a medic during the Gulf War, Zaki saw active duty in Kuwait. "I know how to use a gun very well," he says, without a trace of bravado. "You won't find an Iraqi man of my age who hasn't experienced...
...third of that. Like a vaccine against pride, the sublime achievement of the human intellect reveals that we have only twice as many genes as a roundworm, about three times as many as a fruit fly, only six times as many as bakers' yeast. Some of those genes trace back to a time when we were fish; more than 200 come directly from bacteria. Our DNA provides a history book of where we come from and how we evolved. It is a family Bible that connects us all; every human being on the planet is 99.9% the same...