Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surrounded by high fencing topped with barbed wire, surrounded by armed guards and laden with alarms, sirens, cameras and a medical station. Up to 100 soldiers at a time would train there, each repeatedly giving blood samples during their stay to ensure that they were not contaminated by the lethal agents within. These trainees, cloaked in protective overgarments and masks, would detect and swab a bleachlike solution over military gear spotted with deadly droplets. Each week 10 tons of toxic agents and neutralizers would be burned in a 2,200¡ furnace, spewing what the Army says are harmless emissions from...
...recent recommendation by the Pentagon to move the world's only known school using lethal nerve agents from Fort McClellan in Alabama to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri has sparked a ferocious public relations battle. As Alabama partisans engage in guerrilla warfare to sabotage the move and keep the facility, Missouri is in such a rush to claim the prize that some of its citizens fear the state is cutting corners and keeping them in the dark...
...police insist that Davis offered his confession without prompting; Davis counters that it was coerced under threat of death. Now, a coalition of Illinois activists-among them a former Chicago police chief, a retired judge, author Studs Terkel and several prosecutors-is scrambling to rescue Davis from execution by lethal injection this Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. at the Menard Correctional Center...
...Their immune systems targeted transplanted organs as foreign and marshaled white blood cells to destroy the invaders. But Najarian saw a solution. With a colleague, he worked out a method for purifying a new drug called antilymphocyte globulin, or ALG, a potent cocktail of antibodies capable of countering the lethal reaction...
...after minor surgery to overcome infertility, I received three times the normal dosage of an anti-nausea drug to counteract side effects of the anesthetic. No one considered my size, which is much smaller than the average adult. I experienced a horrific reaction. Luckily, the effect was not lethal, as it was in the case of cancer patient Betsy Lehman; but I was traumatized to the point of avoiding further surgery, which was recommended. That is why I remain childless today. The fear that still lingers from that experience has killed my chances to conceive future children...