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At the Olympics, Johnson & Johnson Shows Fungus-Free Relics

Posted on August 18, 2008

Fungus free, 2,200 years later.(Photo: NCImaging/Newscom)Even if you re a 2,200 year old Chinese warrior assigned to fight demons in the afterlife, athlete s foot can be a pesky problem. Lucky for you, Johnson & Johnson knows a thing or two about athlete s foot and is eager to curry favor with the Chinese government.Now some of the famed terracotta warriors a statuary army buried with an ancient feudal lord to protect him in the afterlife are in J&J s Olympic pavilion in Beijing (as pictured at left). The statues were rediscovered in the 1970s, and J&J opened a factory in C...

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