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...doctor's principle code is, "First, do no harm." The irony is that your doctor's office or hospital may be making you sicker. Indeed, many hospitals are built with materials, like particleboard, PVC flooring and even conventional paint, that can leach poisonous substances. What's more, the chemicals used to clean hospitals - chlorine, laundry detergents and softeners, ammonia - contain toxic ingredients and can cause respiratory disease. In fact, studies suggest that nurses, who spend long hours at the hospital, have among the highest rates of environmentally induced asthma of any profession...
Then there's the stuff that artificial trees are made of. One ingredient in most fake firs is polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a plastic that is difficult to recycle. And while new artificial trees pose little threat to children's health, Mike Schade, the PVC-campaign coordinator for the activist group Center for Health, Environment and Justice, notes that older plastic trees tend to have higher levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin...
MINIMALIST SUIT Patagonia's $530 wet suit uses less neoprene, along with recycled polyester, chlorine-free wool and PVC-free kneepads...
...video for Madonna’s latest single, “4 Minutes,” but rather the material girl herself. It’s not terribly surprising, though, since she’s writhing around in a skin-tight, skin-colored outfit and black knee-high PVC boots like there’s no tomorrow. Or no more than four minutes. Okay, maybe a lesbian kiss would yield better results, but the queen of pop does a pretty good job without Britney. The video as a whole, however, is a bit too languid for people...
...services companies. The message inside both packages, which were discovered by mail clerks, read "Bang! You're dead." The boxes arrived at American Century Investments in Kansas City and Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell and Co., a Chicago financial services company. Both had all the makings of a pipe bomb, a PVC pipe filled with buckshot and smokeless powder, plus protruding wires. But the sender had not included a power source, which indicated to investigators that the Bishop, meant to terrify, not kill - at least not yet. Still, while the devices lacked some components, they could have exploded from static electricity...