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...designed to turn out chemical weapons. "In four years, sitting with the engineers and technical people on committees, nobody has mentioned or hinted that something secret is there," he says. In fact, he argues, one Rabta building, code-named Pharma 150 and reportedly the center for poison-gas manufacture, was not even included in his original design. "I draw the site plan myself -- my hand," declares Barbouti, adding that Pharma 150 was built sometime in 1987, after he completed his work at Rabta...
...industrial accident in history compares with the devastation caused on a December night in 1984, when 45 tons of poison gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. The deadly methyl isocyanate, a pesticide ingredient, killed more than 3,400 people and injured 200,000. The Indian government charged the company with negligence, brought murder charges against its chief executive, Warren Anderson, and demanded $3.3 billion to settle claims by victims and their families...
...main tactic will be to hang poison paraffin blocks from manhole covers in the sewer system. He concedes, though, that he cannot reach other rat tunnels. "The dilemma is that it's not just the sewers," he says, "but a subterranean labyrinth of unknown dimensions." Besides baiting sewers, he will help owners of buildings near the construction create barriers against underground invasions and set traps for rats that venture aboveground. Vows Jackson: "We'll provide them hotel rooms they will never leave...
...disagreement between the Republicans and Democrats been the principal obstacle to effective foreign policy in recent years. Rather, the source of poison and paralysis has more often been ideologically motivated obstructionism within each of the two parties...
...ivory. Since the early 1980s, the price of ivory has surged from $25 per lb. to $80 per lb. As a result, growing bands of wily and ruthless poachers have taken to hunting down elephants illegally all across Africa, killing the animals with everything from automatic weapons to poison. About 10% of the remaining African elephants were killed last year, reducing their ranks to fewer than 750,000. If the slaughter continues at the present pace, the wild elephant could be close to extinction within a decade...