The ancients could not have employed the phytodrugs as effectively as we do because they could not control the dosages, concentrations, and other variables notoriously difficult to command.

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Fortuitously, Marge is looking for a job after an endless hiatus from the working world. After Lisa helps her mother “polish” up her résumé so that she now appears to be the most accomplished woman in the world, Marge lands a job at the power plant operating a machine her ridiculously padded résumé claims she helped invent.

The underflow from the hydroclones goes to a novel, countercurrent, solvent deasphalter. ln the deasphalter the more polar asphaltenes form a second liquid phase which effectively agglomerates the solids in the oil feed.