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...Scientists like Heather Chapman, program leader at the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality & Treatment, would love to conquer the "yuck" factor that dominates the recycled-drinking-water debate worldwide. She insists the feared health risks of chemicals in water-from fertility problems to cancers-have been overstated and the effectiveness of modern processes for removing contaminants undersold. "The treatment processes are very, very efficient," Chapman says. "Nothing is completely risk free, but the risk of these things is so tiny compared with the risks that we are exposed to daily, like getting in a car." She says scientists need...
...burger lovers haven't been demanding a decision, one reason may be what Carol Tucker Foreman of the Consumer Federation of America calls the "yuck factor." A Gallup poll reported last year that 64% of Americans believe cloning animals is "morally wrong." An industry survey found that 62% of consumers would be reluctant to buy products made from cloned animals...
Despite the significant yuck factor, students say that one of the appeals of Dorm Crew is that it is an efficiently-run organization...
Give Demon Days a casual listen, and it sounds like a concept album about environmental collapse. There's a children's choir and an appearance by Dennis Hopper in full freak mode-all of which is to say, Yuck. But give the album a fraction of the attention that went into making it, and it reveals itself as close to great. The lyrics remain a bafflement-although it's clear from titles like Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head and Every Planet We Reach Is Dead that in the future, according to Gorillaz, we'll need more sunscreen...
HOFFMAN: One song, in Jimmy Shine with Cleavon Little. It was a beautiful song. [Sings.] "She's a laaaaady." Yuck. I can't sing...