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...ZINC Got zinc? A study by researchers at the Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center in North Dakota found that seventh-graders who took 20 mg of zinc--double the recommended dietary allowance--five days a week for as long as three months outperformed their peers on tests of memory, word recognition, attention and learning. Halfway around the world, a study of Bangladeshi children demonstrated the life-saving health benefits of minimal levels of this essential mineral. In a yearlong study of 1,621 children ages 2 months to 1 year, zinc supplements either prevented or lessened symptoms of pneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A-Z Guide to the Year in Medicine | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...bearing nuggets. He then extracts the gold with mercury, which sticks to gold like glue. "Sometimes I spend 15 days at a time in here without finding anything," he says. Like most of his fellow miners, González, 29, typically earns only enough to afford a shack made of zinc sheets and tree branches, set in a seedy mining camp where kids play in mercury-contaminated water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chavez's Gold Bind | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...horrid zinc tablets...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drinky Drink | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...This is a second-rate, hack work," countered Columbia's Edward W. Tayler. "It's clumsy, inept. It's a clunker. It's quite clear to anyone who doesn't have a zinc ear that this is not a poem written by Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shall I Die? Shall I Fly . . . | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...danger from a deadly combination of a toxic environment and bureaucratic stalemate. In November 1999, in the aftermath of the war in Kosovo, about 200 Roma, driven from their homes by ethnic Albanian extremists, were placed in refugee camps near Trepca, one of the largest lead-and-zinc mines in Europe. Last June, the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted blood tests on 75 Roma adults and children in the camps; 44 proved to be massively contaminated by lead. The camps have still not been evacuated. Refugees live "the life of animals," says Agron Qosa, who forages for food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaden Bureaucracy | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

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