a.m. update

Lisa is trapped in Armonk. Ok, perhaps I exaggerate, but her meeting is running longer than expected. "Frisket" has been moping since returning from "Monster Mutt" yesterday. When she woke up this morning, she did her morning stretch, grabbed a stick and walked over to Lisa's side of the bed to wake her up and was perplexed that she wasn't there.

What's in your green tea?

While trolling around for something completely different, I came across this article from In These Times: What's In Your Green Tea?. An excerpt:

Hope Nemiroff thought she was living the healthiest lifestyle possible. After being diagnosed with cancer in 1995 and having a tiny tumor removed from her breast, she had changed her ways. [...] She switched to a mostly organic, vegetable-based diet. She drank a dozen cups of green tea every day.

Determined to learn everything she could about her disease, Nemiroff, now 58, also became president of the Mid-Hudson Breast Health Action Project, an advocacy group in New York. Impressed by her efforts, her oncologist hired her to help with a study of the relationship between DDT and breast cancer. Although she was not a subject of the study, Nemiroff says, "I got curious. I wanted to see what [the blood] of somebody like me would look like who was living a healthy lifestyle."

Her blood, it turned out, contained traces of DDT. And when she later investigated what part of her diet might be contaminated with the pesticide, the answer jolted her. A laboratory analysis found DDT in her green tea.