Word: phosphorus
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...senior officers with novelistic abandon. (Of the senior British commander, the exasperating Sir Bernard Montgomery, he writes, "His self-regard was almost comical.") He is willing to be graphic, though never gratuitously so, in his descriptions of battle. Maybe the most horrific weapon on the battlefield was the white phosphorus the Allies carried. During the bitter fighting for Hill 112, an English soldier tried to slip through barbed wire under machine-gun fire. A round clipped a phosphorus grenade in his pouch and ignited it. Writhing and burning, he became entangled in the wire and hung there, begging for death...
...human population has exploded over the past few thousand years, the delicate ecological balance that kept the Long Summer going has become threatened. The rise of industrialized agriculture has thrown off Earth's natural nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, leading to pollution on land and water, while our fossil-fuel addiction has moved billions of tons of carbon from the land into the atmosphere, heating the climate ever more. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...areas in Southern Israel and, on the Israeli side, that Palestinian civilian communities within Gaza were cruelly mistreated, terrorized, and, in some cases, executed. As is typical of these reports, Israel received the harshest tone of condemnation and was also reprimanded for its use of weapons such as white phosphorus and its failure to preserve intact the local Gaza communities, while the Palestinians were criticized largely for their internecine conflicts...
...result of a chemical used in a bomb.' DR. MOHAMMAD AREF JALALI of Afghanistan's Herat Regional Hospital on burns suffered by villagers caught in a May 4 clash between U.S. and Taliban forces. Some human-rights groups say the burns were caused by U.S. troops using white phosphorus...
Currently, the main concern with the river is that it may have too many nutrients such as phosphorus, which is a far cry from the issues the river faced over a decade...