Word: poisoned
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...enough discarded plastic bags to stock a Wal-Mart. Night after night, they cut fences intended to hold in cattle and horses. Cows that eat the bags must often be killed because the plastic becomes lodged between the first and second stomachs. The immigrants steal vehicles and saddles. They poison dogs to quiet them. The illegal traffic is so heavy that some ranchers, because of the disruptions and noise, get very little sleep at night...
...costs associated with learning to use energy more sensibly. Second, we'll lose animals and plants. We would push the polar species and alpine species off the planet. On the other hand, the climate change and CO2 in the air will be good for aggressive, weedy plants such as poison...
...inbound from Ukraine, detaining many Ukrainian and Georgian citizens. Even allied Russian citizens were deported from Belarus, if their connection to Russian liberal parties or groups was established. Shortly before the election Belarusian and Russian TV stations showed one such terrorist who "confessed" to have been trained how to poison a city's water supply system planting a dead rat. But even many of those who had previously supported his Boss smelled the rat. "You listen to this-and you think: one of us must be an idiot," said Vasyl Koktysh, a construction worker, on the morning of the election...
What do jock itch, poison gas and flesh-eating bacteria have in common? Gregory Schultz, 56, thinks he has the answer. The cancer researcher turned inventor has patented a technique for chemically bonding bacteria-fighting polymers to such fabrics as gauze bandages, cotton T shirts and men's underpants. It's a technology with an unusually wide variety of uses, from underwear that doesn't stink to hospital dressings that thwart infections...
...hottest potential applications for Schultz's invention is fighting burns from sulfur mustard, which was Saddam Hussein's poison gas of choice. (He deployed it against Iraq's Kurds and stockpiled it for use on coalition troops.) The U.S. Army has asked Schultz and his company, Quick-Med Technologies of Gainesville, Fla., to develop a dressing that could be used to treat sulfur-mustard blisters. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense has ordered up $1 million worth of research into a mustard-gas ointment. "It's all the same technology," says Schultz. "It's just adapted for different uses...