Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understood why they would build a factory containing poison gas close to where people live," said Raoof, still choking 30 hours after the gas seeped through his home. "They could have gone out in the jungle where no one lives. Now we are mourning our dead." As he spoke, silent processions of survivors carried the dead, wrapped in white cotton shrouds and covered with flowers, through the streets of the poisoned city to the nearby Chhola Vishram cremation site. There, four, five, six bodies were thrown onto a pyre that usually served only one. Rows upon rows of pyres burned...
...chemical compounds, including DDT and lindane. Since then new generations of pesticides such as carbamates (Bux Ten, Furadan and Mobam) have proved to be efficient at curbing insects and microscopic pests without producing the strong toxic effects of DDT on the environment. At the same time, however, these new silent killers still pose a potential threat to other forms of life, including human...
Miriam Schmir is at times captivating during her almost silent performance as the withdrawn, passive Kate. Her childlike voice and preoccupied aura are unsettling as both her husband and friend fight to possess...
...this fall, publicly funded Christmas crecnes reappear with the blessing of the Supreme Court, as a chilling reminder of just how vulnerable the church-state wall is. And formerly faithful supporters of that wall remain silent--indifferent or incapacitated. Even the usually liberal Boston Globe recently editorialized, "A Christmas creche is not a cause for silly litigation...
...traditional medical colleges were shoved out of the limelight. And they are fighting back. Calling doctors at the Loma Linda Hospital--where Baby Fae became the first person to survive for any length of time with an animal heart--"unethical, impractical and immoral," Harvard doctors have broken the usually silent ranks of the medical profession lest the public become overly enthralled in the aberration. Likewise, the Humana Hospital has been charged with a gross neglect of established health policy by venturing into the artificial health field with an eye for publicity and profit...