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...from the effects of these gases. Respirators, special clothing and air filters are all effective protection. The gas masks currently used by NATO can be put on within ten seconds and worn even during sleep. Antidotes are also available which can save the life of a person receiving a lethal dose if administered immediately...
...contemporary toxicologists were to conjure up a cause-and-effect grammar for lethal chemicals, asbestos would stand for lung cancer, benzene for leukemia, Kepone for sterility, vinyl chloride for cancer of the liver. The links between these chemicals and certain ailments are now clearly limned, in medical circles as well as in popular mythology. But the connections with diseases for other substances are merely suspicions and likely to remain so for a long time...
...Soviets are about even with the U.S. in the development of high-energy lasers (HELS) and clearly ahead in an even more lethal offshoot, charged particle beams (CPBs). Instead of photons, which have no mass, CPB devices shoot bursts of relatively weighty subatomic bullets, such as electrons (particles carrying a negative electric charge) or protons (which have a positive charge) that have been accelerated to nearly the speed of light. These bursts do not melt the surface of a target as lasers do, but slice right through...
...Sugar Ray Leonard and four other U.S. gold medalists in 1976. But Teofilio Stevenson, 29, was once again on hand to play wrecking ball to the heavyweight division. Although rumored to be out of shape, the regal Cuban knocked out his first opponent, Nigerian Solomon Ataga, with one lethal right-hand punch and then considerately helped him to his corner...
...Jarrell wrote like an angel, it was often an avenging one. But the same fierce gaiety that could make him lethal also made him the most generous of praisers. He proselytized ardently for Whitman and Frost a generation ago, when both tended to be dismissed, or admired for the wrong reasons. He upbraided Auden for sometimes frittering away magnificent skills: "Auden's laundry list would be worth reading-I speak as one who's read it many times, all rhymed and metered." But Auden's best, he maintained in a review reprinted in this new collection...