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Avoiding the most dangerous chemicals

Unfor­tu­nately we live in a world where we are sur­rounded by human-made chem­i­cals (more than 80,000 are in use in the U.S.). Of those, only a few hun­dred have been tested for safety. I learned a lot in a recent arti­cle in Nat­ural Home and Gar­den Mag­a­zine (July/August 2011) titled “Chem­i­cal War­fare” by K. Lerner and A. King­fisher. Here is a sum­mary of their advice in avoid­ing 10 of the most dan­ger­ous chem­i­cals found in and around our homes (five this week and five next week) :

Jury visits home of Ohioan charged in 11 deaths

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CLEVELAND — Guided by flash­light and wear­ing face masks, jurors were met with rooms buzzing with flies and a high-heeled shoe left on a microwave Mon­day as they vis­ited the home of an Ohio man charged with killing 11 women and hid­ing their bod­ies around his property.

Ohio mom gets life term in baby’s microwave death

DAYTON — An Ohio woman con­victed of killing her month-old baby daugh­ter in a microwave oven was spared the death penalty and sen­tenced Fri­day to life in prison with­out parole.

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