Word: goo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...storybook Niagara Falls housewife, baking homemade bread, keeping a spotless kitchen and raising her family in the neighborhood known locally as Love Canal. But in 1978 Lois Gibbs' life took an abrupt turn. That was when she became convinced that the toxic goo seeping from an abandoned chemical- waste dump three blocks from her home was making her children -- and those of her neighbors -- sick. Stymied by stonewalling corporate and government bureaucrats, she summoned strengths and talents she did not know she had. Over a period of two years, Gibbs knocked on doors, passed out petitions, gave speeches, hounded public...
...cartoonists, who still publish Ninja Turtle comics, developed the story line that became the basis for the TV show and movie: four ordinary turtles were accidentally dropped into a sewer manhole, where they fell into a radioactive goo that caused them to grow to human size and gain the power to speak. The mutated turtles were then adopted by Splinter, a similarly mutated rat who had once been the pet of a ninja warrior and who continues to tangle with his master's human nemesis, the Shredder. Splinter drills his wards in ninja-fighting techniques and names them after...