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Triple Pundit
SC Johnson, maker of a variety of household products that include Glade, Drano and Scrubbing Bubbles, says in its latest sustainability report that it has reduced greenhouse gas emissions 27 percent at its worldwide factories over the last eight years.In the U.S., the Racine, WI, company reported a 17 percent reduction in GHG emissions since 2005. ...
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Manufacturing in America has eroded over the decades to approximately 10% of our country’s annual Gross Domestic Product. The Bureau of Labor Statistics documents 3 million jobs lost in manufacturing between 1996 and 2006. At an average manufacturing hourly wage of $18.50 representing a loss of $115 billion in annual manufacturing wages. I wi ...
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ATP: Aliens, Triangles, and Physicians
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epistemocrat
Prelude:Check out Keith Norris' post "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" re: sugar toxicity on Theory to Practice. Then return here...ATP: Aliens, Triangles, and PhysiciansNutrition Education in Medical School Curriculum“You are not what you eat; you are what you do with what you eat. And what you do with fructose is particularly dangerous&rd ...
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Help a child this Christmas!
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Melanie
Reece's Rainbow is an organization dedicated to promoting the international adoption of children with Down syndrome. By raising money to offer adoption grants on waiting children, they are able to give adoptive families the extra financial help they need to bring a child with Down syndrome home from a miserable existence in overseas orphanages. The ...
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Help a child this Christmas!
by
Melanie
Reece's Rainbow is an organization dedicated to promoting the international adoption of children with Down syndrome. By raising money to offer adoption grants on waiting children, they are able to give adoptive families the extra financial help they need to bring a child with Down syndrome home from a miserable existence in overseas orphanages. The ...
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Real Milk Is Raw
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Virginia
I've been meaning to get raw dairy back in my house and it just hasn't worked itself out! Tonight I was out of grocery store milk (aka sludge) and I was able to trek up to Thirteen Colonies Farm in Milton, NH to get my fix. I picked up a gallon of raw milk for $4.50 (plus $5 jar deposit) and I took a chance on a quart of their yogurt which I had ...
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Not All Genetic Tests Are on TV
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Lisa E. L.
At a baby shower this weekend, I had one of my two regular party conversations. Someone says, “Genetic testing? Cool! Do you do all that CSI stuff?”No, I don’t wield big flashlights and hang around crime scenes. DNA can tell more than one interesting story. In addition to forensics, DNA technology is used for…Predisposition ...
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Breast Cancer Treatments: Discoveries & Debates
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Lisa E. L.
Thank you, Gina Kolata, for continuing to explain both the science and the personal dilemmas of breast cancer treatment research.Increasingly, oncologists and researchers are focusing on the nature of the tumor itself — “tumor typing” — rather than the location of the tumor when recommending treatments. I expect that very so ...
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May is CF Awareness Month
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Lisa E. L.
Why be aware of cystic fibrosis? As many as 1 in 25 people in the US is a CF carrier. And that’s a pretty high carrier rate for a condition that most people don’t know about.Cystic fibrosis, or CF, is an inherited disease that affects the lungs, digestive system, sweat glands, and male fertility. If you are pregnant - or thinging about ...
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