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...definitive evidence is yet available on the health hazards. But there is reason for concern. The fires produce some of the same carcinogens as cigarettes. They also give off" colorless, odorless carbon monoxide, which can be dangerous in a building sealed to prevent heat loss. Another troublesome emission is a family of toxic chemicals known as polycyclic organic matter, or POMS, which are to be studied by the Environmental Protection Agency...
Thus began the long-planned airlift of 888 nerve gas bombs from Denver to Tooele Army Depot in western Utah. Each slug-shaped bomb is 7 ft. long and packed with 346 Ibs. of a clear, odorless liquid called GB. A good whiff or a splash on the skin can kill a human being within minutes. Dubbed "Weteyes" because tears are one of the first symptoms of exposure, the bombs were built for the U.S. Navy in 1969 and stored just three miles north of Stapleton. But the Weteyes were too close for comfort for many Denverites, and lobbying...
...from moist, infertile mountain land in Peru and Bolivia, whose governments cherish the crop as one of their principal exports. Raw coca leaves are soaked in various chemicals and oil. The result is a muddy brown paste, which is purified into so-called coca base, a dirty white, almost odorless substance, which is usually shipped to laboratories in Colombia for refining...
High in our maple, oak and beech trees, however, their chewing at midsummer is loud enough to be audible. The noise sounds so much like soft wind that it is soothing. Billions of minute, odorless brown particles of caterpillar scat fall as a result, and the ears of a listener are tricked into informing his brain that a very light rain is pattering down. So far, the tourists have not seemed to understand what is happening, and are well pleased with the sound of very light rain on rainless days...
British Novelist Margaret Drabble has described the Eurocurrencies as ''colorless, odorless, tasteless, unspendable money that passes in hieroglyphics through computers from one part of the globe to another...