Let’s start with the bad news: You are saturated with man-made chemicals, some of them toxic. Today’s exposure began when compounds in your shampoo and shaving cream seeped into your skin cells, and during your morning coffee, when you drank chemicals that were released into your brew as hot water ran against the plastic walls of your coffeemaker. It continued all day as you touched industrial chemicals in packaging, or walked through pesticide-sprayed lawns, or cooked dinner on nonstick pans.
ewg.org is Environmental Working Group’s website, not ewg.com
Let’s start with the bad news: You are saturated with man-made chemicals, some of them toxic. Today’s exposure began when compounds in your shampoo and shaving cream seeped into your skin cells, and during your morning coffee, when you drank chemicals that were released into your brew as hot water ran against the plastic walls of your coffeemaker. It continued all day as you touched industrial chemicals in packaging, or walked through pesticide-sprayed lawns, or cooked dinner on nonstick pans.
http://www.ewg.org/ is Environmental Working Group’s website, not http://www.ewg.com/
Its better to be seen and not heard. This condescending counsel dispensed to unruly adolescents is doubling as an unofficial recommendation for athletes in the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, China. With a location immersed in controversy, Olympic committees worldwide have threatened to spank any athlete who smuggles a soapbox into his gym bag.
This article makes one glaring assumption: that the Great Firewall of China is infallible. Oliver August's article in Wired last October ( http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-11/ff_chinafirewall?currentPage=1 ) seems to suggest that it is anything but. It is not impossible that we're about to find out that some athletes who resent being forced to choose between gagging themselves or missing a huge moment in their careers know a thing or two about anonymous blogging. Not to mention the Chinese themselves who may have several stories for the travelling journalists about things that have happened in the run up to the games.
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