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...Lover. He claimed to be exploring the use of animals as sexual surrogates and writing a book tentatively called How to Prevent Homosexuality in Your Children. His basement contained items of even more interest to the law: 580 grams of marijuana, illegal pills, stolen office equipment, four gallons of nitric acid, gun silencers made from automobile oil filters and Brink's security-guard uniforms used in a robbery of a Sears store. Smith was in prison for that caper when he was charged with the Reinert deaths...
...suffered miscarriages over the past five years. Digital commissioned a study of the problem by Harris Pastides and Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's division of public health. The two investigated a group of 744 women and found a somber correlation. Pregnant women working where nitric and sulfuric acids were used to engrave circuitry patterns on silicon wafers experienced a miscarriage rate of 39%, vs. the national average of roughly 20%. Even though it has long allowed pregnant workers to transfer from such areas, Digital says, its study is inconclusive. "We have the data," says Spokesman...
First you tear up 250 acres of California ranchland. Then you fill the holes with tons of sewage, cyanide, Nair hair-removal cream, spoiled Coca-Cola syrup, winery dregs, rocket fuel, rat carcasses, nitric acid, paint chips and fish organs. What do you get? A state-of-the-art toxic-waste-treatment facility...
...power plants, factories and smelting operations and, to a lesser extent, auto emissions. When tall smokestacks vent their fumes, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and traces of such toxic metals as mercury and cadmium mix with water vapor in the atmosphere. Chemical reactions follow that form dilute solutions of nitric and sulfuric acids-acid rain...
Elizabeth authorities mobilized the town's entire 250-man fire department as soon as the blaze began. Because dangerous nitric and picric acids, pesticides and plasticizers were stored at the burning dump, officials also closed public and private schools in both Elizabeth and Staten Island, and urged residents to stay at home and keep windows closed...