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Companies are less likely to recycle electronics than other waste, even though computers make dreadful trash. A desktop computer contains nearly 40 lbs. of plastic, lead, aluminum and iron, along with small amounts of arsenic, mercury, zinc and gold, and environmentalists are worried that the metals will leach into soil and water. But without national standards, some recyclers play fast and loose with the term. Some just shred waste. Others ship it overseas to China, Vietnam or India...
...facebook whores with groups like the vicious "Holy shit the class of 2009 should perform a David Koresh-style mass suicide," complete with a Goya painting of Saturn devouring his young. A quote from the group warns first-years that prefects may "poison [their] study break fare with arsenic or tricky laxatives." We're just trying to get all of them quadded...
...LIGHTS OUT A new green-purchasing law requires San Francisco to buy low-mercury light bulbs and use arsenic-free wood on playgrounds...
When Munir Said Thalib, Indonesia's most prominent human-rights campaigner, died during a Garuda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam and was later found to have been poisoned with arsenic, his murder became a test of new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's pledge to run an open and accountable administration. Yudhoyono set up a 12-member commission consisting of human-rights activists, legal and justice department officials, and a police brigadier. Based on its early findings, police last week arrested a Garuda pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, on suspicion of involvement in the activist's death...
...chemical triumvirate of death and destruction? Not quite, according to Mandryk, who said the bones belonged not to victims but rather to cadavers used by medical students, who used to practice surgery in the chapel 40 years after it was built in 1744. The arsenic, she said, was probably used to prepare the cadavers “for teaching purposes...