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Like many another metal, lead is a cumulative poison. The human body can dispose of the minute quantities that it ingests in food and water. But any unnatural overload piles up, causing abdominal cramps ("painter's colic"), lassitude, irritability, vomiting and twitching. In severe cases, the victim may lapse into a coma. Prolonged lead poisoning damages the brain so insidiously that its effects may not be evident for years...
Simple Abstinence. Treatment is still the subject of disputation among experts, except for the obvious measure of keeping the child away from lead long enough to give his system a chance to excrete the overload. It usually takes at least twice as long to remove the lead as it took for the child to take it in, says Chisolm. For the milder cases, this appears to be sufficient. For more severe poisoning, especially if there are signs of brain damage, some doctors use drugs called chelating agents. These drugs work by substituting calcium for the lead, which is then excreted...
When the state took over the welfare system last July, it took most of the most-experienced social workers with it. As a result Cambridge has only a few workers to process thousands of bills which were incurred before July. The resultant overload of work is the reason for the long delays expected before the backlog is cleared...
...Indeed, Laugh-In's attack has touches of the late Ernie Kovacs, smatterings of early Sid Caesar and Steve Allen, and a-pie-in-the-face splat or two of Soupy Sales. But on Laugh-In, the calculated aim is to create a state of sensory overload, a condition that audiences nowadays seem to want or need. Blackouts, slapstick, instant skits pinwheel before the eyes; chatter and sound effects collide in the ear. Other TV variety shows can be dropped intact onto a theater or nightclub stage, but Laugh-In would be impossible anywhere but on television...
...owners were drafted for emergency duty hauling food supplies to supermarkets mobbed by panic buyers. Tourists, warned by their governments to get out of the Middle East, scuffled with one another for seats on outgoing flights, and airlines rushed in extra planes to try to handle the overload. In Cairo, U.S. Ambassador Richard Nolte ordered the "temporary departure" of 400 embassy wives and children...