Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report, among its anticipated projects, does it mention chemical warfare agents. Continuing in the gourmand tone of its opening references, ADL reports its toxin measurements in "tablespoons" and as "1/3 cup," instead of simply coming straight out and telling the public that a few drops are lethal...
Since 1981 the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports that Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has struck more than 8,000 Americans, 90% of them gay men or drug abusers. But the CDC says that at least 119 Americans have contracted the lethal AIDS from blood transfusions. With death lurking in the national blood supply, the Federal Government and five private drug companies began developing a method to detect evidence of AIDS infection in donated blood. The first such tests have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and last week test kits from Abbott Laboratories were shipped...
However, as McAliley himself will be the first to admit, there may be some heated opposition to the Lethal Microbe Free Dunster House movement. "Some Dunster House seniors are afraid it will interfere with their theses," McAliley said last weekend...
...focusing charged particles by electromagnets, then stripping off the charge just before the beams are shot out the end of an orbiting device. Why bother with them then? Primarily because the beams, which work by frying the innards of a missile or warhead with radiation, in principle are more lethal and yield a surer kill than lasers...
...testing toxic substances 10,000 times more lethal than any other research laboratory in the city, said Edward Cyr, a member of Cambridge's 16- member scientific advisory board...