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...work is menial, dangerous, and illegal. Often it results in the release of highly toxic chemicals into the air, water and soil. Along the waterways of Guiyu, computer monitors are smashed with hammers, exposing workers to toxic phosphor dust. Lead and barium from the crushed components seep into the riverbank. Toner cartridges are cracked open for their carbon-black dust. Used in industrial processing, the material "is a great seller," says one worker, "more than 10 per cartridge." But its effects when inhaled are unknown...
...healthily deflated when year in and year out nearly every well-known college-ranking publication dubs Harvard the most “selective” school in the nation? Something is far, far amiss here, dear readers. Indeed, it is a sad day when high achievers are allowed to seep into the infrastructure of a school and ruin its reputation by running up its grades...
...weeks ago, the Senate leadership announced it had decided to go the gas-bomb route, in which the entire building is sealed off and flooded with chlorine-dioxide gas. The toxic fog would seep into rugs, drapes and anywhere else anthrax may have landed--including the building's own respiratory system, its network of ventilation shafts. But gas, too, has drawbacks, including the damage it can do to artwork and furniture and the fact that it doesn't work as effectively if the temperature isn't maintained at 70[degrees]F and humidity at 50% to 70%. "Doing this...
...worst thing unspecific fear can do is to seep into the bloodstream so that all of life is poisoned, and even in those moments when nothing is going wrong--sweet moments with family, walks in the park--one feels that life is on the verge of a mad explosion. For the entirety of its existence, Israel has lived with the fear of terrorism, and learned to alchemize that fear into resolve...
...rate, I’m thinking about buying a few new Spanish CDs, or I’m sure I can find some mp3s on the Internet. Globalization is now allowing bad Spanish music to seep into the States. But my cultural revelation is that bad music isn’t about homogenization. It’s about universality...