Word: specialize
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...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 in the blood known as LDL (low-density lipoprotein). Recent studies suggest, however, that monounsaturated fat has no special power but is valuable as a replacement for damaging saturated fats...
Police work is full of occupational hazards. But canine cops working the drug beat face a special risk: getting high, and sometimes fatally intoxicated, on the stashes they are trained to sniff out. Veterinarian Val Beasley of the University of Illinois reports that his office receives about six calls a year concerning overdosed police dogs. "They don't eat the drugs because they like them," he explains. "In the excitement of the chase, they inadvertently inhale or swallow them when they pick up the objects in their mouths...
...myths. Although after a decade of intense investigation the United States still has no firm evidence that American servicemen survive in Vietnam, a new report released last week has rekindled the emotional issue once again. Prepared at the behest of North Carolina's Republican Senator Jesse Helms, a new special minority study from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asserts that a 1974 government analysis concluded that "several hundred living POW/MIAs were still held captive in Southeast Asia." The Pentagon categorically denied the existence of the analysis. "While we have yet to find conclusive evidence of the existence of live prisoners...
CHEERS (NBC, Nov. 8, 9 p.m. EST). While The Simpsons and Cosby try to clobber each other, this hardy perennial has quietly passed them both and grabbed the No. 1 ratings spot. Tonight the barroom gang marks its 200th episode with an hour-long special featuring talk-show host John McLaughlin...
According to Pamela Brown, a 12-year veteran of wolf shows, the movement to reinstate timber wolves to the wilderness is experiencing delays due to the intervention of special interest groups such as ranchers, hunters, developers and offi- cials of the Fish and Game subdivision of theDepartment of the Interior...