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...years the Environmental Protection Agency has urged Americans to check their homes for radon contamination. Seeping into basements from underlying rocks and soil, the colorless, odorless radioactive gas raises the risk of lung cancer. The EPA maintains that a household level of four picocuries of radiation per liter of air is enough to produce cancer in 13 to 50 of every 1,000 people who breathe it regularly. The agency estimates that at least 8 million homes exceed this level, warranting such measures as sealing foundation cracks...
...common cooking oils, canola contains the lowest level of saturated fat -- the kind that boosts blood cholesterol, the villain in many forms of heart disease. Like other oils, canola boasts a long shelf life, has the ability to remain odorless at high frying temperatures and averages 120 calories per tablespoon. But canola's biggest attraction is its scant, 6% level of saturated fat, in contrast to 14% in olive oil and 51% in palm oil. Canola also contains high levels of monounsaturated fat. For a number of years, consuming that substance was thought to reduce the "bad" type of cholesterol...
...secluded wood 55 miles east of Prague, smoking chimneys rise above the East Bohemian Chemical Enterprise. A large complex of ramshackle sheds and concrete buildings, the factory looks unprepossessing enough. But a "special production unit" is mixing batches of one of Czechoslovakia's most lethal exports: Semtex, the odorless, colorless plastic explosive of choice for terrorists the world over...
Since consumers want to see real people rather than idols, advertisers expect the ethnic look to be around for years to come. "We don't want a colorless, odorless soup," says Guy Taboulay, the executive creative director in Paris for B.S.B., a U.S.-owned ad agency. "We want to see national identities and character. Tomorrow's culture will be made up of different cultures. That will be its strength...
...military purposes. But large amounts have made their way into the hands of terrorist groups around the world, posing a fiendishly difficult problem for airline security. Because the explosives can be so easily formed into innocuous shapes, they can pass undetected through security checks. The deadly plastic is also odorless and cannot be sniffed out by trained dogs...