Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feet in the backyard of a family friend's home two weeks ago in Westminster, Calif., he was set upon by a pit bull. Dragging the child 20 feet before his mother could intervene, the dog mauled the baby's face so badly that it may require years of plastic surgery to repair the damage. Earlier this summer, in Ramsay, Mich., a pit bull broke out of its owner's yard and wandered into a neighbor's. There it pounced on Kyle Corullo, a 20-month-old, and thrashed him about like a stuffed toy. Kyle died of a broken...
...down the amount of money the Army has to borrow for cash advances to its personnel. Moreover, Citicorp, which owns Diners Club, has agreed not to charge the usual $55 annual fee on the cards. Citicorp will still receive payments, however, from restaurants and stores that accept the plastic. Like all Diners Club members, the soldiers will receive a $150,000 travel life insurance policy. It will cover them when they take a commercial bus, plane or train, but not when they go into combat...
...dump sites in Philadelphia, mounds of refuse, piled in fantastic configurations, looked like some strange, fetid form of sculpture. For 18 days, while municipal garbage collectors remained on strike, the waste mounted to an estimated 20,000 tons. Clouds of flies hovered everywhere; rats scurried from their rancid treasure. Plastic trash bags became toxic balloons, swollen tight by noxious fumes from the detritus inside. "Trash entrepreneurs," driving around in vans, carted bags away for 75 cents each. Along with their luggage, residents even began taking their rubbish with them as they left for vacations in the Poconos or for trips...
...cells, found a way to deflect further censure: the city administration charged that Monaco's report helped trigger the riot. Inmates who saw accounts of the report, city officials claimed, concluded that they would be set free if they destroyed the prison. Some convicts actually packed their belongings in plastic garbage bags before the buildings were set afire. A number of prisoners did escape Lorton afterward, but not to freedom. Nearly 500 of the 1,300 inmates involved were shipped to other area jails...
During the five-hour procedure, an Allegheny plastic surgeon detached a latissimus dorsi--a broad muscle that plays a nonessential role in controlling arm motion--from its connection points along the spine. Magovern slipped it into the chest cavity with the muscle's nerve system and major blood supply intact, then wrapped it around Jones' heart like a towel. After a week's recovery time, he began stimulating the transplanted skeletal muscle with a pacemaker, causing it to contract and help pump blood. Less than a year later, Jones reports that she can walk a mile or two without difficulty...