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...they were given benign missions like retrieving objects from the sea bottom and helping in underwater-rescue efforts. Inevitably, however, it occurred to military planners that the highly intelligent dolphins, which can swim at speeds of up to 26 m.p.h., dive more than 1,000 ft. and find a vitamin capsule while blindfolded, might be turned into underwater patrols...
...Philadelphia, forced millions of Americans to ask themselves, however fleetingly, whether to take a risk by eating. That the fruit at the salad bar, the peach in Johnny's lunch box, the raspberries in the refrigerator, could be poisonous turned the world upside down. Could the stuff of vitamin C and Cezanne still lifes be hazardous? Was an apple a day more likely to bring the doctor than keep him away? What was the world coming...
...report from the National Research Council urges people to cut the fat, skimp on alcohol, limit the meat, pile on the vegetables and skip the vitamin pills...
Tseng and his family earned more than $1 million from his stock in Spectra Pharmaceutical Services, the company that manufactured his Vitamin Aointment, according to the Boston Globe. Kenyonalso owned stock in the company but gave up hisprofits after a Medical School study found thatprofiting from the stock represented a conflict ofinterest, the Globe reported...
...allegations, first published by the Boston Globe, assert that Scheffer C. G. Tseng, an ophthalmology fellow at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, illegally administered a Vitamin A-based drug for dry eye to almost 300 patients. Worst of all, Tseng held a large financial stake--valued at $3.4 million--in the company which produces the drug, wrote misleading reports magnifying the treatment's effectiveness, and failed to inform patients about the drug...