Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perfect example of OSHA's inability to insure safe working conditions for high-tech workers is its inability to prevent firms from expanding the use of gallium arsenic "super chips"--the fumes from which killed John Zemotel. These chips are expected to enable computer companies to build machines that operate at speeds five times as great as the current generation of silicon-powered computers. The use of gallium arsenic, fatal in certain amounts, is thus expected to grow by 56 percent between...
...Walter Reed. Indeed, many scientists question whether any vaccine can prompt the immune system to react fast enough to catch sporozoites after they have been injected into the body by a mosquito: each sporozoite takes only a few minutes to find sanctuary in the liver, where it is safe from the marauding antibodies. Even if only a handful of sporozoites get through to the liver, malaria will result...
...methods of mosquito control are also vital. The challenge is to produce insecticides that are environmentally safe and that can overcome the problem of resistance. Entomologist Brian Federici, a WHO consultant at the University of California, Riverside, may have found a way of solving these two problems by spraying breeding grounds with a naturally occurring bacterium that kills mosquito larvae. But the method is costly, and Federici asks, "Who is going to pay for it?" That is the ultimate question in controlling malaria. According to one estimate, the cost of producing a malaria vaccine and distributing it to Third World...
...evidence is overwhelming that lead is a threat to human health. This action will greatly reduce the threat, especially for pregnant women and young children." He added, moreover, that "recent evidence shows that adverse health effects from lead exposure may occur at much lower levels than heretofore considered safe." Ruckelshaus estimated that the ruling would lower by nearly 50% the number of children with levels of lead in their blood that exceed U.S. health standards. He said the affected youngsters would be reduced from 97,000 at present...
...owner tells him to get out, to go play video games like all the rest of the kids, but Bastian stands his group, declaring proudly that he owns 186 books. Bastian then asks to see what the old man is reading, but the latter refuses, saying. "It isn't safe." He explains that while a good book gets one involved with the plot, it is, after all, nothing more than a story. This book, called The Neverending Story, is different...