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• Woman “imprisoned” on Scientology cruise ship for 12 years | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

  UPDATE: The Village Voice has an extended interview with Valeska Paris, which you can read here.
  For most people, an extended stay aboard a luxury cruise liner sounds like a dream vacation.
  But Valeska Paris says she was held against her will aboard the Scientology cruise ship "Freewinds" for more than a decade. During her stay on the vessel, she alleges, she was forced into hard labor and never allowed to leave the ship without an escort.

  tags: worse than failure

• Consumer Reports study finds high levels of arsenic in fruit juice - Daily Dose: A Boston Globe blog with health news, advice, and information.

  Remember back in September when Dr. Mehmet Oz launched into near hysterics on his talk show warning against arsenic in apple juice? And remember when the US Food and Drug Administration told us the show was a bunch of baloney since the agency’s own testing found acceptable levels of arsenic in juice?
  
  Well, it turns out, Dr. Oz may have been correct in airing his concerns. Consumer Reports tested 88 samples of apple juice and grape juice -- purchased in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York -- and found that 10 percent of the samples had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking-water standards of 10 parts per billion (ppb), and 25 percent of the samples had lead levels higher than the FDA’s bottled-water limit of 5 ppb.

  tags: wellness

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