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Screaming woke Lanz Ellingsworth. The piercing cries were loud, they were shrill - and they were coming from his daughter's bedroom. At 8:30 p.m., Ellingsworth and his wife had tucked their youngest, Lindsay, in for the night. They read her a bedtime story, kissed her on both cheeks and crept out of the room.
You never forget your first fermented spit drink. In the rainforest of Peru, locals chew yuca and spit the masticated root into jars for fermentation. The resulting alcoholic beverage is a local staple called masato, and a few weeks ago, I was offered my first cup.
Just in time for holiday cookie season, we've discovered that the vanilla flavoring in your baked goods and candy could come from the anal excretions of beavers. Beaver butts secrete a goo called castoreum, which the animals use to mark their territory. The U.S.
Last year's drought increased the spread of a carcinogenic mold called aspergillus ( Aspergillus flavus), a fungal pathogen that poisons cattle, kills pets and has infected the 2012 corn crop, rendering significant portions of the harvest unfit for consumption. Whereas the deadly organism mainly affects countries like China and developing African nations, many U.S.
Martin Still is an expert in endings. At 10,500 meters, onboard a Virgin Atlantic flight from San Francisco to London, he describes blasts that rip apart matter, explosions that destroy stellar systems and cataclysmic events that shake the cosmos.
Biting the head off a four-inch grub comes with a unique set of challenges. These wrinkly white insects-offspring of the Rhynchophorus palmarum beetle-have viscous guts the consistency of melted butter and stringy skin that sticks in your teeth like cooked celery. In the rainforest cities of Peru, locals call this grub suri and consider it a delicacy.
In the middle of the night, Casandra Cabrera stopped breathing. She doubled over in bed, gasping for air. In the panic that followed, her lungs constricted. Her eyes filled with tears. The asthma attack continued for 10 long minutes. "I keep an inhaler with me everywhere.
Published: Lodi News-Sentinel, 2010 The wardens carry guns, their chests bulging a bit more than normal, a telltale sign of the snug bullet-proof vests they wear beneath their regulation khaki shirts. There are eight of them, all dressed in green cargo pants and heavy boots. One carries a search warrant.
Methotrexate is an effective rheumatoid arthritis treatment, but women who take it while pregnant or trying to conceive could risk their unborn child's safety. The baby was born with just four fingers on each hand. It wasn't surprising.
Before the end of the day, Dr. William Moore had stabbed three people. Dr. Moore, a radiologist at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York, specializes in cryoablation - a procedure that uses frozen needles to numb the nerves that cause chronic pain.