Word: poison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Girls of 12,13 are falling pregnant. If girls commit suicide because of the virginity tests, they would have committed suicide anyway. It is not that important." -- Isilay Saygin, Turkey's cabinet minister in charge of women and family affairs, defending "virginity tests" after five teenage girls swallowed rat poison rather than submit to them...
...Another Ball convert is Allen Hutcheson, 24, a descendant of the man believed to be the model for Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind. "We have to find these people," he says of his family's former slaves. "You have to cut the wound open to get the poison out," agrees Ball. "I believe in the power of truth telling. I've seen it suture that wound...
...coli--the bacteria responsible for "hamburger disease"--produces a poison that damages the lining of the intestine. Common symptoms include dehydration, fever and stomach cramps, but severe complications can lead to death...
...continuing to build up its forces, mainly air power, in the gulf region but shows no eagerness to use them. How, then, can Saddam be forced to open his doors to the inspectors searching for his hidden arsenal of poison and germs? As Richard Butler, head of the Special Commission, and Defense Secretary William Cohen both stressed last week, the issue is not just Iraq. It is how the world will try to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction for decades to come...
When the American Medical Association revealed three months ago it had agreed to endorse a line of Sunbeam products, the plan was almost universally denounced as poison for the credibility of the 150-year-old organization. So the AMA backed down. Thursday its chief executive, Dr. P. John Seward, resigned, anticipating a lambasting at the association's semi-annual meeting next week. He is the fifth high-level AMA officer to do so since the deal was announced...