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NO MORE FINGER FOODS At The History of Eating Utensils at www.calacademy.org / research / anthropology / utensil / index.html. The anthropology department at the California Academy of Sciences has one of the largest collections of utensils, with more than 1,700 items. Chopsticks, one of the earliest eating utensils, were first used more than 5,000 years ago. Discover the many uses of knives and how they've changed from straight, pointed instruments to modern dinner knives. Last, check out the portable silverware used by nomads, from pocket forks to modern nesting cutlery sets.

First, they take a scalpel and scrape the top layer of skin from your face. Then, they spread acid where they just finished scraping.Some kind of torture, you ask, aimed at getting prisoners to talk?Not even close. It's a skin care treatment designed to remove acne or other facial scars, tighten wrinkles and heal skin damage caused by over-exposure to the sun.Not only do women freely submit to this treatment, called BioMedic MicroPeel, they shell out $75 at a time for the pleasure. And they say it doesn't hurt.

I've been struggling with body odor for years. I've used antibacterial soap, but it only helps for a short while. It's really affecting the way others look at me in my workplace, commute and outings. Once I thought this odor was because of a serious nail fungus. After taking oral Lamisil, I no longer have the fungus, but I still smell bad. Please help! Only a physician can diagnose what's causing your problem. Some people have a metabolic disorder called trimethylaminuria. A defective enzyme allows a chemical to build up in the body that smells like dead fish.

My question is regarding canola oil, which is noted as being healthful. I would like to know the name of the plant that is used to produce this product. The ingredients label of my bottle states only "canola oil."- Delores Biles, Downers Grove, Ill. Canola oil comes from a variety of rapeseed. But canola oil is not the same as rapeseed oil, which has lots of erucic acid, a fatty acid that has caused tumors and cardiac lesions in animal studies. According to a Federal Drug Administration spokeswoman, Canadians began a rapeseed-hybridization program in the 1960s to reduce the oil's erucic-acid content, in hopes of marketing it as an edible oil. By the late 1970s they had developed what is now known as canola, then called low erucic acid rapeseed oil. In 1985 the FDA recognized that rapeseed oil with erucic acid levels below 2 percent was generally recognized as safe.

Teacher wants acid thrown on attackers KANDAHAR, Afghanistan : A 23-year-old teacher burned in an acid attack on 15 schoolgirls and instructors wants the Afghan government to throw acid on her attackers and then hang them. Kandahar's governor said yesterday that authorities had arrested 10 alleged Taliban militants in the Nov. 12 attack and that several had confessed to taking part. Gov. Rahmatullah Raufi said the men would be tried in open court, a pledge that pleased Nuskaal, a first-year math teacher who suffered acid burns on her shoulders.

I am confused about buttermilk in cake recipes. The recipes don't specify which type of buttermilk - whole fat or low- or nonfat. Will using low-fat or nonfat buttermilk change the taste? The recipes probably don't specify a fat level because most buttermilk is low-fat or nonfat. Originally, buttermilk was what was left after butter had been churned from full-fat milk. Since the fat became butter, the milk left behind was low-fat or nonfat. These days, most buttermilk is cultured, similar to yogurt.

Q: Is it normal for a teen-aged girl to have severe cramping, nausea and vomiting during her menstrual period? Can anything be done about it?A: In a previous column, we wrote that within one to two yearausea and vomiting can also be symptoms.There are some excellent medications to prevent these symptoms or make them less severe. These include ibuprofen (available in 200 milligrams without a prescription or stronger with a prescription), naproxen or mefenamic acid (both of which require a prescription)

Field notes from the third annual Susquehanna Sojourn, held each June to promote awareness of where the river comes from and where it goes.*So this is death; nothing rude, just an absence of life, and quite lovely -- water clear as air moving over pale rock below, gleaming pewter as it slides away toward the Chesapeake between plushy green mountains of Penn's great woods.The water is so crystalline because for nearly a hundred miles the river is acid-dead, devoid even of plankton upon which to build a food web. It is the legacy of King Coal, gouged by the million-tons from deep within these old hills.

Every time she looks in a mirror, every time children point at her scarred face, every time pain shoots through her left arm and back, Gail Pinson is reminded of what happened one morning 18 months ago. Her ex-boyfriend, Melvin Elem, approached her on the steps of her new boyfriend's West Baltimore home. Elem unscrewed the lid of a liquid-filled jar. And as he said, "See who will want you now," he tossed its contents -- probably battery acid -- at Pinson's face. Yesterday, Baltimore Circuit Judge Allen L. Schwait called Pinson's case the worst he'd seen in his 10 years on the bench and sentenced Elem to 38 years in prison, the maximum allowed under Maryland law. Some of the 50-year-old city schoolteacher's scars will never heal.