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Higher-tech hygiene might be possible. NASA astronauts have tried two T-shirts woven with silver thread. The metal inhibits bacterial growth. The results, though anecdotal, seem promising: the shirts "were encrusted with salt, but they did not smell," Ivins reports. Last year NASA began testing silver-laced bedsheets, blankets and other items in its Aquarius underwater habitat, off the Florida coast.

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