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Articles Written by: GEORGE JOHNSON
Posted 6 a.m. Wed., Nov. 18 - In England, the government collects DNA samples from its citizens with far greater regularity than in this country, claiming that the preserved samples provide law enforcement with a very large database with which to snare ...
From GEORGE JOHNSON,
St. Louis Beacon,
18 Nov 2009
Posted 6 a.m. Wed. Nov. 11 - It was with great sadness that I read of the death this month of Robert Rines, a prominent scientist and inventor who taught at M.I.T. and Harvard. Among the many things Rines invented was a silly idea that has burrowed ...
From GEORGE JOHNSON,
St. Louis Beacon,
11 Nov 2009
Posted 6 a.m. Wed. July 29 - I read in a recent newspaper (yes, I am old enough to still read printed newspapers) that obesity is a key link to the soaring costs of health care in the United States. Americans who are 30 or more pounds overweight added ...
From GEORGE JOHNSON,
St. Louis Beacon,
29 Jul 2009
Posted 6 a.m. Wed. July 15 - It is mid-summer, the day after baseball's All-Star game here in St. Louis, with the cooler days of fall in distant sight. This is the time of year that public health officials begin to seriously prepare for the unwelcome ...
From GEORGE JOHNSON,
St. Louis Beacon,
15 Jul 2009
Posted 6 a.m. Wed. July 8 -
As I get older, cancer kills more and more of my friends and family. Lung cancer is my particular nemesis. My brother died of lung cancer a few years ago, my closest college friend last year.
Unlike breast cancer, which we ...
From GEORGE JOHNSON,
St. Louis Beacon,
8 Jul 2009
Posted 6 a.m. Wed. July 1 - We are living in a world of molecular agriculture, with genetically engineered foods now a common part of our daily lives. The advantages afforded by genetic engineering are cheaper and more nutritious foods. But what are ...
From GEORGE JOHNSON,
St. Louis Beacon,
1 Jul 2009
CASAS GRANDES, Mexico From the sky, the Mound of the Cross at Paquimé, a 14th-century ruin in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, looks like a compass rose the roundish emblem indicating the cardinal directions on a map. About 30 feet in diameter and ...
Posted 6 a.m. Wed. June 24 -
My affair with the Big Mac: Making my junk food a bit more nutritious
Like most of us, I try to eat healthy food. I really do. But I have a weakness for fast food - especially Big Macs. My wife and daughters have tried for ...
From GEORGE JOHNSON,
St. Louis Beacon,
24 Jun 2009
At the Farmers' Market, our volunteers are making a difference. In the accompanying photo are Carol Johnson, Penny Cassell and Bettina Shaw, new Auxiliary President Connie VanWye, and Auxiliary Trustee Gail Williams. All these women are volunteers ...
Posted 6 a.m. Wed. June 17 -
It has been more than four decades since I was 20 and a Trivial Pursuit star. In those feisty days I could remember every movie I had ever seen, every book read, every TV show seen. Not now.
Ask me the star of a movie I ...
From GEORGE JOHNSON,
St. Louis Beacon,
17 Jun 2009
