Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burials. Now a Swedish pathologist has designed a new casket that he claims is suited to the less ceremonial 1980s. It is made of wax-impregnated corrugated cardboard and is said to be just as durable as an ordinary pine box. With its outer finish of imitation oak or walnut, it even resembles a wooden casket. Promoters point out that the cardboard model can be shipped flat to reduce transportation costs, conserves scarce natural resources, costs only one-tenth as much as a traditional casket and will start to decompose in about three years...
...haute cuisine, their prescriptions range from the basic soufflé and chicken pot pie to such palate pleasers as cold peach soup, filet of pompano with citrus fruits and pistachio nuts, and filet of veal with crabmeat and wild mushrooms -capped perhaps with a topless chocolate cake or a walnut tart...
...study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, involved healthy women, ages 18 to 54, enrolled at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Walnut Creek. A quarter of them took oral contraceptives regularly. Among the findings: Pill users did not have higher mortality rates than nonusers, if they did not smoke, and ran no greater risk of developing circulatory problems or cancer of the breast, ovaries or lining of the uterus. Though the researchers did note a slight increase in lung cancer, they said that it was probably caused by the women's heavy cigarette smoking. Similarly, they said...
...Walnut Street Center, Inc. may construct a home for mentally retarded adults on Shea Road in North Cambridge, the Cambridge City Council voted last night...
Olsen said the Walnut Street Center hopes to receive grants from the Department of Mental Health to fund an extensive program involving two additional sites in Somerville. She added the group has already found the Somerville sites, but must submit a Cambridge proposal before March 1 to receive the state funds. The grant totals more than $1 million...