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• Old + New

  
  Fashion Feed of SL — Authority: 174
  Older tops VS newer bottoms! ^_^ Skin – Den Dou Hair – Boon Eyes – Poetic Color Ears – SLink Shape – my own Sweater – M+M Shirt – Sand Shack Surf Co. Pants – four.Arsenic Boots – CheerNo Poses – Esme Milena + Penny Dreadful Arcade  
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• Ut oh … Lead & Arsenic in Dog Beds, Toys & Tennis Balls

  
  Land of PureGold Foundation — Authority: 135
  In the last three years, HealthyStuff.org, a project of the Ecology Center, has conducted over 15,000 individual tests on over 5,000 common consumer products.  Their information represents the largest publicly available database of test data on toxic chemicals in consumer products. Currently, the U.S. government ...
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• News brief: Arsenic biomethylation required for oxidative DNA damage

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 163
  (Journal of the National Cancer Institute) Biomethylation of arsenic compounds appears to cause oxidative DNA damage and to increase their carcinogenicity, according to a new study published online Nov. 23 [...]
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• Companies fail to declare nanoparticles in make-up (The Age)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  Report describes cosmetics technology as modern equivalent of Ellizabethan arsenic creams. (get the story…) Related items Nanoparticles in cosmetics hidden (The Age) Nanoparticles in common cosmetics, paints may cause genetic damage (New Kerala) Nanoparticles used in common household items cause genetic ...
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• Amnesty International & Anwar Ibrahim

  
  MAGICK RIVER — Authority: 131
  Anwar Ibrahim listens attentively as his former speechwriter, Dr Munawar Anees gives a chilling account of the humiliation and torture he suffered at the hands of Mahathirs secret police in 1998. AI condemns intimidation of lawyers in Malaysia Free Malaysia Today | Sunday, November 22, 2009 PETALING ...
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• Bangladesh mass poisoning mystery solved by scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 17 (ANI): Scientists have determined that the source of the arsenic that turns up in lethal quantities in hundreds of thousands of wells across Bangladesh is ponds, thus solving one of the world’s great poisoning mysteries.Bangladesh occupies the flood-prone delta of the river Ganges. In the past ...
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• Scientists Solve the Mystery of Bangladesh’s Arsenic-Tainted Water

  
  80beats — Authority: 632
  It was a twisted cycle: In the 1970s, Bangladeshis used surface ponds or rivers to collect rainwater for drinking. But thanks to garbage dumping and sewage, that water became a breeding ground for disease. So UNICEF sought to fix the problem—the agency helped residents drill simple wells that drew water from a ...
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• Scientists finds origin of dissolved Arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 444
  Researchers in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the Bangladeshi government for nearly 30 years. The research ...
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• Man-made ponds behind arsenic in Bangladesh water

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 16 (ANI): MIT researchers claim to have tracked down the origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh’s drinking water.The research team led by Rebecca Neumann and Khandakar Ashfaque have found that human alteration to the landscape, the construction of villages with ponds, and the adoption of irrigated ...
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• Man-Made Ponds Brought Poisonous Arsenic to Bangladesh Waters

  
  Daily Contributor — Authority: 553
  The mystery of how arsenic has widely spread in Bangladesh waters was finally solved. The culprit is the tens of thousands of man-made ponds that were designed to protect villagers from unclean and disease-ridden surface waters. Researches made chemical tests and models to examine the flow of groundwater from a ...
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• Bangladesh: ponds ’caused arsenic’

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 120
  Man-made ponds may be responsible for widespread arsenic contamination of ground water affecting millions of people in Bangladesh, a new study says [1]. Rebecca Neumann hangs off the end of bamboo scaffolding built at the field site. Assisted by a man hired from a nearby village, she is connecting a tube that ...
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• Bad Fish Oil Capsules and How To Avoid Them

  
  Health 2 u — Authority: 132
  Any time a product becomes really popular, the market will be flooded with poor quality ones that offer little in the way of benefits and with fish oil capsules they can even contain dangerous toxins. Once you know what to look for based on proven research, the choice becomes much easier. Bad fish oil capsules will ...
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• Clean Coal in the Dominican Republic

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 565
  Clean Coal is awesome : It has been six years since a contractor from Delray Beach brought the black dusty residue to the province of Samaná, and three years since the ash was cleaned up. Several civil lawsuits and criminal cases later, just when everyone thought it was over, the other shoe has dropped. A civil ...
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• Arsenic leak at a former goldmine

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 158
  A report into an arsenic leak at a gold mine has revealed test drilling threw up a mini poisonous dust cloud. Go here to read the rest: Arsenic leak at a former goldmine Please Share or Bookmark this post
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• Researching Place

  
  'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' — Authority: 495
  To what extent should writers research the settings for their books? Opinions vary – after all, Harry Keating famously never visited India until long after his series about Inspector Ghote had won widespread acclaim, not least in India. I gather that the recently deceased Lionel Davidson didnt visit Tibet before ...
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• Arsenic in groundwater : a world problem

  
  WASH Resources — Authority: 412
  Appelo, T. (ed.) (2008). Arsenic in groundwater : a world problem : seminar Utrecht 29 November 2006. (NNC-IAH publication ; no. 5). Utrecht, The Netherlands, Netherlands National Committee of the IAH. iv, 136 p. ISBN 978-90-808258-2-6 Download full document and separate chapters This publication presents the ...
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• Heavy-Metal Toxicity: 16 Ways to Limit Your Exposure

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 548
  By Catherine Guthrie, Experience LifeWhat would you think if someone asked you to consume a dose of heavy metals every day for the rest of your life? Most likely, you’d be horrified. But truth be told, you’re already doing it. Everyone ingests small amounts of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury daily. It’s not ...
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• Film on TV: November 2-8

  
  Jandy's Meanderings — Authority: 117
  Nearly everything’s a repeat this week, but many of them haven’t been on for months, so check anyway, there may be something worthwhile. And since there aren’t really that many exciting Newly Featured films this week, let me take the opportunity to plug Maria Full of Grace , which is one of those movies that I ...
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• Film on TV: November 2-8

  
  Row Three — Authority: 511
  N early everything’s a repeat this week, but many of them haven’t been on for months, so check anyway, there may be something worthwhile. And since there aren’t really that many exciting Newly Featured films this week, let me take the opportunity to plug Maria Full of Grace , which is one of those movies that I ...
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