Word: poisonous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Maddux had a younger brother and three younger sisters. When she brought Ira home to Texas to meet the family, they were horrified. Like a caveman, Einhorn began eating ravenously. While the family said grace, he scratched and clawed at his poison-ivy blisters, and he treated Holly as if she were his personal maiden. "We concluded that he basically came down there to try and promote a rift between Holly and my father," says Elisabeth Hall, 37, who gave the name Holly to her daughter, a ballerina. Elisabeth was the last family member to see Holly alive. After Elisabeth...
Though CCA is infused deep into the fibers of wood under very high pressure, the poison--which keeps the insects away--now seems to be leaching out. It's bad enough if decks, docks and maybe even a few picnic tables begin sweating arsenic, but the toxin was also widely used in children's playgrounds, where over the past couple of decades thousands of whimsical wooden forts and castles have been built on sites that once housed metal swings and cagelike jungle gyms...
Most parents know little about the threat of poison in playgrounds, but in government circles, the alarm bells being sounded by consumer groups have reached the point where officials feel they have to act. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency announced that starting in the fall, CCA-treated lumber sold in the U.S. will contain a warning label, and stores will be provided with stickers and signs for their displays. At the same time, the Consumer Product Safety Commission agreed to ask for public comments on petitions that could lead to an outright ban of CCA. In Florida, dozens...
...sure how to react. After a complex trek in which a South Korean businessman led them to Beijing, the Jangs gathered June 26 for what they feared would be their final breakfast together. When they finished, the family matriarch gave everybody, including her teenage grandkids, small tablets of rat poison: if the police were to grab them, they would commit collective suicide. They then marched into a United Nations office to demand sanctuary. "They preferred death to being taken back," says Moon Guk Han, the businessman who helped them...
...chief representative in Beijing, Colin Mitchell, said it would have been "unthinkable" to repatriate the family. But if Moon's gambit forces China to post just a few soldiers outside the compound?or 100,000 at the border?the next family to arrive might have to eat its poison...