Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...universality which make a character endure. Ben Evett, who plays the role of Vindice with puckish bravado, and Peter Hansen, the Duke's bastard son of conniving mien, carry the play through its weaker moments. When Vindice again draws forth Gloriana's skull--this time as a weapon to poison the Duke, who unsuspecting that she is only a "shell of death" will try to steal a kiss from her in a dark corridor--he handles the scene with a deft blend of madness and humor that make the murder believable and his vengeance justifiable...
...LIKE THE POISON that spreads invisibly from underground toxic waste dumps into our drinking water, the various facets of the scandal surrounding the investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have seeped far from the source. It is these widespread consequences that have made the affair so shocking and so disturbing...
Nothing, however, will rival the day that Ball opened a package addressed to Harvard and found only black rosary beads and a sweat sock "When I first got this. I wasn't sure whether there was something had inside like poison. You never know what's in the letters," he says...
...understand this preoccupation with the "humane way" to execute killers. What compassion do they show the victims whom they dispatch with gun, knife, ax, club or poison...
Then, two days before Christmas, the Federal Government released Environmental Protection Agency findings that oil mixed with the deadly poison dioxin, sprayed on unpaved streets a decade ago as a seemingly harmless means to hold down dust, had left dangerous concentrations of the chemical in the soil. But since the EPA samples were taken before Dec. 5, it is still unclear whether the flood waters washed away much of the chemical, making Times Beach safer, or unearthed more dioxin, spreading it throughout the town. The EPA plans new tests, scheduled for this week...