Word: chloroforms
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...your water. Carbon filters, for example, are good at purging organic compounds, such as pesticides and solvents, but they will not remove minerals or most heavy metals. And one of the more elaborate devices, a distiller, is excellent at taking away heavy metals but is not effective against chloroform and benzene...
...reason for the stillness is the neighborhood's proximity to something called the Brio Superfund site, a place that once housed two waste-disposal plants and now contains a witches' brew of toxic effluviums. Southbend's wells have been polluted by such chemicals as chloroform and xylene, while a black, oozing tar has bubbled upward into driveways and garages. Residents say air contaminants, such as trichloroethane, have been responsible for personal tragedies. Among them has been a rash of birth defects: in one four-month period, 11 deformed children were born; other children suffered serious heart and reproductive-organ problems...
...most audacious manner wins. Only 10 days after a defector flew a small plane to Cuba and whisked his entire family to freedom, the pilot and passengers on an internal flight bound for a popular resort tied up their co-pilot, knocked out a security guard with chloroform and, 50 minutes later, were gleefully exchanging high-fives on the tarmac at Miami Airport. All but five of the 53 people aboard requested asylum...
...agree to speed up phasing out use of chemicals that destroy the atmospheric shield. Updating the timetable known as the Montreal Protocol, delegates at a United Nations conference in Copenhagen moved up elimination of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and carbon tetrachloride to 1996, four years ahead of schedule. Halons and methyl chloroform will be banned earlier too, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Researchers forecast more skin cancer as the ozone layer disappears...
These efforts at prevention will not eliminate accidents, however. "One of the biggest fears I have now is highway and railroad spills," says Nicholas Crawford, director of the Center for Cave and Karst Studies at Western Kentucky. Two years ago, a freight train carrying hazardous chloroform jumped the tracks near Lewisburg, Tennessee. "If that train had derailed in Bowling Green, it would have been a catastrophe," Crawford says...