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...issues are not that simple. While Americans have no reason to be terrified to sit down at the dinner table, they have every reason to demand significant improvements in food and water safety. They unwittingly and unwillingly ingest too much of too many dangerous chemicals. If food already contains natural carcinogens, it does not make much sense to add dozens of new man-made ones. Though most people will withstand the small amounts of contaminants generally found in food and water, at least a few individuals will probably get cancer one day because of what they eat and drink...
Upon meeting a virus, the macrophage, which moves about, amoeba-like, on long cellular extensions known as pseudopods (false feet), does more than just ingest the intruder. It has another, even more important function. On its surface, like virtually all body cells, the macrophage carries MHC (for major histocompatibility complex) molecules, protein badges that enable other immune cells to recognize the macrophage as friend, or self, and not attack it. After digesting the virus, the macrophage proudly displays strips of protein from the virus in the grooves of some of its MHC molecules. Once a bit of protein -- which...
While undergraduates living on campus during the academic year are forced to ingest such upscale prison fare as broccoli-cheese pasta, scrod that never had a chance, and produce that would make a P.O.W. think twice, alumni living in the houses are being feted to meals fit for a French Sun King...
...right texture, and the meat must be even on the bread so the customer doesn't bite through empty sides. That takes training." Nor can just anyone open a mouth wide enough to bite into one of those beefy extravaganzas. That takes training too, as does the capacity to ingest a complete sandwich at a single sitting. No wonder many customers take home uneaten halves for later meals...
Above all, you are there much more to absorb than to emit. Absorb the riches and inaximize the character. Everyone is assimilating your dynamic music, hip language, new perspectives: your culture, Do not be afraid to ingest a quantum of James Russell Lowell, John F. Kennedy, or An Wang without fear of losing your identity. Engage in endless positive dialogue both with those whom you wish to shape and those by whom you wish to be molded...