Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...killed 34 people: 23 patients at Drake, five at a local Veterans Administration hospital where he used to work, and six others. Most were described as elderly and ailing. His methods, according to the report, ranged from cyanide, arsenic, rat poison or cleaning fluid to suffocation with a plastic bag or pillow. Police have refused to comment on the case, pending completion of the grand jury investigation...
...departure gate, mechanics discovered that a loose bolt had punched a hole in a 727's fuel tank, causing a leak. King says the hole was plugged with an unauthorized, quick-hardening plastic sealer so that the plane could depart. A supervisor concealed the improper patch job by not recording it in the aircraft's logbook. The hole was not correctly repaired with a metal plate until later that week...
...Clip, a quartz fashion watch set into a clothespin-like plastic clip that is designed to be worn almost anywhere except the wrist, has captured markets in 20 countries. The clip sells at about the same price as a Swatch and comes in 60 models, with such names as Tutti Frutti and Panther. Following the European debut of Le Clip in mid-1986, retailers sold more than 1 million within twelve months. The watch has now traveled to the U.S., where the manufacturer aims to sell a total of 750,000 within a year. Le Clip is hottest in California...
...country are targeted on IV drug abusers, though most of them are small and poorly funded. In San Francisco, Vicente ("Chente") Matus, an ex-addict who now works for Midcity Consortium to Combat AIDS, ambles along the rough-and-tumble streets of the city's Mission District, his white plastic bag bursting with 1-oz. bottles of household bleach and packets of condoms. His message to IV addicts is blunt and simple: Don't share needles, but if you have to, clean the "works" twice with bleach, a procedure that reduces the risk of exposure to the virus. While...
...waters from chewing away any more of his bluffs, which he is losing at the rate of 10 ft. yearly. On Long Island, beach residents shore up dunes with driftwood and old tires. And in Carlsbad, Calif., the community has come up with a number of ideas, from planting plastic kelp to laying a sausage-like tube along the beach in order to trap sand normally washed away during high tide...