Word: potassium
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DIED. James Autry, 29, convicted murderer who was 31 minutes away from death last October when a U.S. Supreme Court stay gave him a temporary reprieve; by execution (an intravenous injection of sodium pentothal, Pavilion and potassium chloride); at the Texas state prison in Huntsville. Two days after Autry's execution, North Carolina put to death (also by injection) Killer James Hutchins...
...West German industries burn 3.5 million tons of coal a year, leading to heavy discharges of sulfur dioxide.) According to Professor Bernhard Ulrich, an expert on soil science at the University of Gottingen, acidic downpours can leach key nutrients, such as calcium and potassium, from the soil, or deposit toxic metals like aluminum. Acid rain might also prevent microorganisms in the soil from converting organic debris into fertilizer. Professor Peter Schiitt of the University of Munich believes that dry, airborne particles of metal are the culprits, along with acid rain. Says he: "What is shocking is that whole areas...
...wheeled hospital gurney. He was to be the second man in the U.S. executed by injection, and after he was strapped down, a prison employee inserted an IV tube into each arm. A harmless saline solution began to flow, while executioners prepared to release a fatal dose of Pavulon, potassium chloride and thiopental sodium. He lay there waiting to die at the appointed time...
...grown by Colombian farmers. Until 1980, José Antonio Monroy, 50, grew corn on his ten acres near San José del Guaviare, southeast of Bogota. Now he tends 15,000 coca bushes. He harvests the leaves three times a year and processes them in a bath of gasoline, sulfuric acid, potassium permanganate and ammonia. "You can't blame me if others get poisoned with this stuff," Monroy says. "This is what they pay me for." Colombia's annual per capita income is about $1,150. From his annual end product, 35 lbs. of paste, Monroy nets $65,000. Inflation along this...
...matters of the heart fill the news these weeks, both firsts and quickly related. In Utah, Dr. Barney Clark was fitted for an artificial heart, and in Texas, the heart of Charles Brooks Jr. was stopped by doses of sodium thiopental, pavulon and potassium chloride administered by the department of corrections. One can muse on the irony of medical inventiveness being used for two antipodal purposes, but irony is not the mood with which the public is left. For Clark one feels apprehension, appreciation and a passing sense of social advancement. For Brooks one feels a vast emptiness and impotence...