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...Using poison gas has been a violation of international law since 1925, but stocking national arsenals with it has not. The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament in Geneva filled some loopholes last week when it finished work, after 24 years of negotiation, on a new treaty. It outlaws production, stockpiling and transfer of chemical weapons, and will take effect after 65 nations have signed it. Some states will refuse to sign; others, like Russia, will hesitate because scrapping chemical weapons will be so expensive. For the U.S., which will sign, the price tag will be more than $6 billion...
Collor's government stands accused of failing to fulfill some of its most important promises. Many conservation areas and national parks exist only on paper. Cattle ranchers, farmers and miners continue to burn, bulldoze and poison the forests. Brazilian environmental agencies still lack the staff and equipment they need to protect endangered flora and fauna. Foreign funds dedicated to Brazilian conservation efforts languish unused because the Collor government, plagued by corruption and staff turnover, has failed to develop projects that would make use of the money...
...union that mandate capital punishment, the condemned may die, in ascending order of frequency, by being hanged, by being shot by a firing squad, by inhaling cyanide gas, by electrocution or -- the newest method and a dog's death in more ways than one -- by being administered poison through an intravenous drip. Unlike at the mall, though, there isn't much choice at the retail level. Only Utah (shooting or hanging) and Idaho (lethal injection or firing squad) offer the customer a limited say in how he (death row's population is 98.5% male) goes...
...virtual recluse -- cranky, litigious and, considering the length and strength of her celebrity, by no means wealthy. She was, by common critical consent, one of the great stars of the movies' Golden Age. But she was never wildly popular with the mass audience and was once dubbed box-office "poison" in an exhibitors' poll...
...major corporations, sponsored a petition challenging the compensation for the executives at Time Warner, top officers of the company quickly paid a visit to negotiate a deal: the group agreed to drop its challenge on pay, and the company would eliminate its takeover defenses, including so-called poison-pill provisions designed to scare away potential bidders...