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Today, science is showing that onions - and garlic, another vegetablelike herb in the Allium family - may promote longevity not just by making you enjoy life (and your meals) more, but also by keeping cancer in check.
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Many writers avoid the language problem by introducing mental telepathy as the means of communication, which is just as well: human speech employs the available organs situated between the lungs and the face, and there is no reason to assume that fish-faced or vegetablelike or otherwise constituted extraterrestrials would be endowed with like equipment (any more than are many nonhuman creatures on earth), and they would thus be unlikely to use languages constructed for humans.
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