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Cyanide gas, he said, is highly toxic and is eventually lethal to humans if breathed for a protracted period of time. The experiment in question, though, involved only solid cyanide, which is poisonous is ingested but gives off no dangerous fumes...
...Kuwait many times. The basic plot was known in detail: "The bomb was to be placed in an area where it could be detonated as President Bush's motorcade was to go by," a top intelligence official said. "The bomb, which weighed 175 lbs., had a fairly large lethal radius. Al-Ghazali was to move within a distance of 300 or 500 feet and detonate the bomb manually, using the radio remote-control device." If that plan failed, al-Ghazali was supposed to move the car to Bush Street in Kuwait City and activate the manual timer, which...
...peacekeepers. They were angered by the viciousness of the assault on the peacekeepers. Gunmen had used women and children as human shields, and mutilated the corpses of the fallen Pakistanis. Aidid hardly showed remorse. A few days prior to the U.S. raid he blamed the U.N. for provoking the lethal firefight. "Unfortunately," he boasted, "I have no power or authority to arrest them...
...also to be an earnest explode- o-matic thriller. It is a very fine line. "Every moment of every day," says screenwriter Shane Black, of working on the script with his partner David Arnott, "we looked at each other and said, 'This isn't Naked Gun.' " Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout, says, "I hate action movies," but he also maintains that the new film is "a heartfelt example" of the genre. Sort of. For instance, the villainous android-cop from Schwarzenegger's Terminator 2 appears in a cameo. At another point, Slater/ Schwarzenegger unwittingly delivers...
...because of what he calls "the cousin syndrome" -- the woman for whom the drug was prescribed might pass it on to a cousin or friend, who has not had a gynecological exam. In rare cases, that woman may be having undetected problems, such as a tubal pregnancy, a potentially lethal complication that the pills would not halt...