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A brief history of America's love affair with fluoridated water — and why it's now up for debate
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man widely expected to become a health leader in President-elect Donald Trump's White House, has promised to lobby to remove fluoride from the American water supply.
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A Brief History of Fat Fads in America, From Nut Margarine to Beef Tallow
Fast food french fries used to taste better. That's not just me looking at the past through a grease-smeared lens of nostalgia; in 1992, a heart attack survivor named Phil Sokolof sold the ...
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A Brief History of Book Banning in America
Book-banning might seem like a relic of less enlightened times, but the practice is back in a big way. The American Library Association reports (https://www ...
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A Brief History of the National Weather Service
The New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote: "Never before, perhaps in the history of the Weather Bureau, have such general warnings been disseminated as were sent out by the local bureau." Despite the ...