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Quails for lunch aboard Atlantis
Paris (AFP) Dec 7, 2007 Quails cooked by star French chef Alain Ducasse are on the menu for the seven crew due to take off on the US space shuttle Atlantis this weekend. Quails stuffed with Madiran wine, accompanied by nutmeg-flavoured celeriac mash and followed up by a chocolate fondant dessert, are among the 10 different Ducasse meals shipped to NASA for the flight, his company said. Breakfast delights include an omelette with herbs, while a Sicilian "caponata", with pureed tomatos and peppers, is among the appetisers. Ducasse, who is supplying the gourmet fare as part of an agreement with the European Space Agency and France's CNES space centre, sent the same meals on the Russian spaceship Progress launched in October 2006. NASA postponed the planned launch of Atlantis from Friday to Saturday due to technical problems. Atlantis is to ferry crew, including Frenchman Leopold Eyharts and German Hans Schlegel, to the International Space Station. Related Links Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News
Broccoli Sprout-Derived Extract Protects Against Ultraviolet Radiation
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2007A team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that humans can be protected against the damaging effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation - the most abundant cancer-causing agent in our environment - by topical application of an extract of broccoli sprouts. The results in human volunteers, backed by parallel evidence obtained in mice, show that the degree of skin redness (erythema) caused by UV rays, which is an accurate index of the inflammation and cell damage caused by UV radiation, is markedly reduced in extract-treated skin. |
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