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After a late night of wooing New Hampshire Republicans, Senator Richard Lugar is up early at the Manchester Holiday Inn for a sensible breakfast of All-Bran and whole-wheat toast. It is part of an unvarying routine that includes yogurt and two apples for lunch daily and meticulous markings on a chart tracking his morning run. Such a creature of habit is now doing the most insensible thing by jumping into the G.O.P. presidential primaries in a way the political oddsmakers see as quixotic: he is already vastly out-financed and out-organized. Until he decided to test...
...well. A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has tested 80 such natural carcinogens. Its conclusion, reported in Science, is that natural chemicals may be significantly riskier than artificial ones. Among the foods that cause problems: wine, lettuce, apples, mangoes and whole-wheat toast...
...just a bit, but it will lead, readers are assured, to resolution in a promised final thriller, Spy Sinker. Will Fiona and Samson retire to a cottage in Cornwall and argue over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite politics, whole-wheat pasta and the melting of the polar ice caps are all alarming, but they don't quite do the job. A lot of fictional heroes with turned-up rain-coat collars must be worrying about their pensions...
There is even nutritious alternative to Raman, the infamous monosodium glutamate noodles. Whole-wheat Raman is flavored only with sea salt, seaweed, mushrooms, garlic and ginger--but it costs more than twice as much as the chemical version...
There is a limit, of course, to how much can be done to detoxify contaminated landfill or to turn a freshly percolating mass of lethal chemicals into the equivalent of whole-wheat flour. That limit is money. In the U.S. alone, the EPA estimates, it would take at least ten years to clean up the 2,200 most dangerous waste sites and require up to ten times the $1.6 billion Congress allocated...