Because honey is composed of saturated sugars, it sucks up water, depriving bacteria of the liquid they need to survive and multiply.

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It's a catheter with a rotor blade at its tip that chops away at the gunk on the artery walls and then sucks it up.

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That means more nutrients in the soil, where it feeds food crops, and less in lakes and streams, where it feeds algae that sucks up oxygen and kills fish.

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Partly because it is a new business that sucks up capital in its early stages, long before earnings can materialize.

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