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...Rachel Sexton ’00 was practicing excavation for her thesis when the mysterious bones were discovered in 1999. The bones seemed to have been sawed apart after death, so Sexton called in Lecturer on Anthropology Carole Mandryk to conduct further investigation. Together, the women found remains of arsenic, mercury, and lead in the soil around the bones...
...Fake Watch Brand-name cigarettes are hazardous enough, but illicit counterfeits are even worse for your health. According to a University of St. Andrews' study in December, counterfeits contain up to five times more carcinogens such as cadmium and arsenic. One hundred million counterfeit cigarettes are made in China each year (about 85% of the world's total), according to the country's State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, which is now trying to snuff out the fakes. Last week, officials in Henan, China's second largest tobacco-growing province, torched $360,000 worth of contraband cigarettes...
...many as 3 million impoverished children will die this year of malaria, although easy prevention (bed nets to ward off mosquitoes) and treatments (antimalarial drugs) exist to save those children. Tens of millions of Bangladeshi citizens are being poisoned daily by drinking well water that is laden with natural arsenic, yet the rich world has not seen fit to help resolve this long-recognized crisis. And the list goes on. The failure of the U.S. and other countries to respond to such utterly solvable crises results not only in massive unnecessary death but also in a vicious circle of poverty...
...weeks ago, the Netherlands Forensic Institute in Amsterdam concluded that Munir had been killed by a massive dose of arsenic. Its autopsy revealed more than 460 mg of undigested arsenic in Munir's stomach; a fatal dose, according to Dr. Mun'im Idris, a forensic expert at Jakarta's University of Indonesia/Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, is anything above 200 mg. Friends and family reject the idea that Munir might have committed suicide. According to Jakarta-based Tempo magazine, Munir sent an SMS to his wife Suciwati from Singapore's Changi Airport that read: "I really can't make this...
...biggest naval graveyard, but many of the ships have specialized in carrying poisonous materials. According to the government, about 12,500 tons of toxic waste end up in the Arabian Sea each year. In the past few years, India has insourced the disposal of old computers, which contain lead, arsenic, cadmium and bromides. The country is also the biggest single importer of mercury-contaminated industrial waste...