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...cares to pick 'em up, they're free to drown. I know that some important folks say different, but if you ask me there ain't no excuse fer a land rich as this to be hearing hungry babies cry. Some people are free to poison the rivers too, which gits to me and Jim, or to let the schools go to seed 'cause kids don't got no vote. I know lots of folks who think a darn sight better than they read, but if they knew how to read, they'd think a whole lot better still. Americans...
...laced capsules of Tylenol pain reliever, the crime seemed so horrible --so peculiarly horrible--that it was hard to believe it would ever be repeated. And yet it has been, again and again. Last February tainted Tylenol capsules killed a Peekskill, N.Y., woman. A month later traces of rat poison were found in Contac cold capsules and Teldrin allergy medication in Houston and Orlando. Two weeks ago, medical investigators discovered that two residents of Auburn, Wash., had died as a result of swallowing toxic Excedrin capsules. Bristol-Myers quickly pulled Excedrin capsules off the market nationwide, but last week Auburn...
Capsules remain popular with consumers despite the poison scares. While these pills are no more effective than tablets, many people find capsules better tasting and easier to swallow. Judy Newbold, a resident of Auburn, is resigned about the discovery of poisoned medication in her town. Says she: "It's just one of those things you have to take in stride. There are kooks everywhere...
...last week to find much serenity. The peace was shattered by some 50,000 rampaging residents, angry at the projected opening of a tantalum factory near downtown Phuket. Protesters feared that pollutants from the refining of tantalum, a tin by-product used in the production of electronic equipment, might poison both the island's water supply and its blossoming tourist trade...
After an ingredient used in rat poison turned up in some of its pills, SmithKline Beckman last March recalled all its Contac cold-remedy capsules (1985 sales: $55 million). The episode came soon after a Peekskill, N.Y., woman died from taking a cyanide-laced Tylenol capsule. The decision to remove Contac from the market cost SmithKline $8 million...