Tag: practice
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Can a Prom Dress Made of Condoms Get Teens to Practice Safe Sex?
It’s that time of year when teenagers are scouring the mall for the perfect outfit to wear on prom night. Indeed, the dresses, which are on display at two formal wear stores in Omaha, Nebraska, are made entirely out of a unexpected material: dozens and dozens of colorful condoms. The gowns, which feature price tags…
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Campbell Soup to switch to BPA-free cans by 2017
(Reuters) – Campbell Soup Co , the world's largest soup maker, said it would completely switch to cans that do not use the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) for their linings in North America by the middle of 2017.
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Toil and trouble in China over Nobel medicine prize
China's Tu Youyou collects her country's first Nobel Prize for medicine next week for extracting an anti-malarial drug from a herb mentioned in a traditional text, but her award has prompted debate over the role of science in the practice. Tu derived artemisinin from sweet wormwood, which she found cited in a 4th century traditional…