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States with high soil selenium levels show none of the negative health effects associated with selenium that were seen in Chinese villagers who had eaten much larger amounts of selenium for longer periods. [Pg.20]

Fischer, S.L. and C.P. Koshland. 2007a. Daily and Peak 1-h Indoor Air Pollution and Driving Factors in a Rural Chinese Village. Environmental Science Technology, vol. 41, no. 9, 3121-3126. [Pg.66]

Physicians and scientists are beginning to appreciate the therapeutic efficacy of acupuncture. Dr. Ted J. Kaptchuk, who holds a doctorate in Eastern medicine and is the author of a book entitled The Web That Has No Weaver, tells a story about a Chinese peasant who had worked as a maintenance man in a newly established Western missionary hospital. The peasant took some antibiotics from the hospital and treated people in his village who had fever. Many of them were cured. The peasant knew nothing about the pharmacology of the antibiotics, but that was irrelevant the sick got better. The physicians of yesteryear could not explain the efficacy of acupuncture, but acupuncture worked. The mighty oak tree stands tall and firm in the ground because of its roots. One does not see the roots but they are there. [Pg.719]

Lang, P.Z., Ding, Y., et al., 1993. A study of the pollution by toxic organics in the Songhua river between middle reaches of Shaokou and Songhua river village. Tech. Equip. Environ. Pollut. Control (Chinese) 06. [Pg.207]

Chestnut has been part of the staple diet in many countries for centuries. It has a sweet and nutty flavor, and its texture is like a firm baked potato and not crunchy compared to other nuts. Chestnut, which is classified as a temperate nut, requires cold winters and warm summers. It has been grown on all continents in northern hemisphere and Austraha [2,3]. hi Asia, the Japanese chestnut Castanea crenata) has been cultivated since the eleventh century and the Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima), possibly for 6000 years. In the Mediterranean region, chestnut has been cultivated for at least 3000 years [2]. In Europe, chestnut spreads from south to north and from Mediterranean to Sweden. It was brought to the Alps and Appennines, and new villages were built only where chestnut could grow and produce fruits [4]. [Pg.171]

The largest human mass movement occurs each spring in China when 135 million migrant workers leave their factory jobs in China s smog-choked industrial cities to journey to their home villages in farmlands hundreds and thousands of miles away to celebrate the Chinese New Year. [Pg.10]

Millions of these migrants are husbands and wives who left infant children in the care of grandparents in the villages as they sought better paying jobs in China s booming industrialized economy. If families cannot reunite for the New Year holiday, what s the point says one migrant in the 2009 film, Last Train Home, a documentary by Chinese filmmaker Lixin Fan. [Pg.10]


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