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...British medical missionary named Denis Burkitt suggested that the reason colon cancer is rare in Africa is that Africans consume much more fiber than North Americans and Europeans. Perhaps, later researchers argued, the extra fiber sweeps the bowel clean of potential carcinogens or somehow alters the intestinal chemistry to retard tumor growth. A few small studies supported the link, while others didn...
...want to see Gallagher, I've got no sympathy for you. None. Zip. You get what you pay for, which is some clownish retard throwing water...
Currently, chickens are sprayed with chlorine and quick-chilled to retard bacteria. Inspectors touch, sniff and sometimes test animal carcasses for contamination. Another method, in which bacteria are killed with zaps of radiation, has proved too controversial for widespread use in this country...
...They are trying to use an existing monopoly to retard introduction of new technology," says Gary Reback, the Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer representing Netscape and other Microsoft competitors. The stakes are much higher than whose Web browser wins. Netscape is enhancing its browser to serve as a platform to run applications. "In other words," says Reback, "if Netscape is successful, you won't need Windows or a Microsoft operating system anymore." On the other hand, if Microsoft is allowed to embed its Web browser into its operating system in a manner that maintains its monopoly, Reback warns, "where will...
...ensure that those added years continue to be a blessing rather than a painful and expensive curse, gerontologists are pursuing two different strategies to retard the aging process. The preventive approach accepts biological aging as nature's given but believes attendant disease, disability and decline can be delayed or staved off through exercise, diet and medical advances. The more radical strategy challenges nature to a duel by aiming to halt or reverse degeneration in the body's cells...