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...drop most of its bombs and cruise missiles on four sets of targets: first, Iraq's air-defense network and the command centers that wire it together; second, the buildings and bunkers that allied intelligence has linked with the production of biological and chemical weapons; third, support facilities for poison-gas production, including some of the "presidential palaces" and the Republican Guard units that protect them; and fourth, military forces and weaponry that Saddam could use to attack his neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The Attack On Iraq Is Planned | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...rest of Indonesia, though, the move is financial poison. Pegging the rupiah to the dollar would only work if Indonesia's economy were "comparatively healthy--functioning banks, low inflation, low unemployment, like in the U.S.," says Baumohl. "Indonesia has none of those. It'll be a disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women and Children Last | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

These kids, growing up in the age of digital thermometers, didn't know that they were playing with a poison--one that can be absorbed through vapors or prolonged contact with the skin. They didn't know that the expression "mad as a hatter" refers to the 19th century workmen who used mercury to cure beaver skins for top hats and over time developed nervous twitches, drooled and spoke incoherently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quicksilver Mess | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...Poison experts hope this incident will increase public awareness of mercury's dangers. Some immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean make a religious or good-luck totem by mixing mercury with mop water or burning it with a candle. Doctors believe that mercury vapors from these rituals may be slowly poisoning entire families, in a tragedy more far-reaching, if less dramatic, than the one in Texarkana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quicksilver Mess | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 1/8/1998 | See Source »

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