Word: toxically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Disney artists to try tiptoeing away from what worked. Pocahontas had soaring melodies to match its do-gooding intentions; The Hunchback of Notre Dame came within two deaths and three cute gargoyles of being the first grownup singing-cartoon romantic tragedy. But these two movies also had an almost toxic serioso content. At times they got so solemn they could have been Broadway musicals in the fashionable I'm-miserable-I'm-a- monster-I'm-a-Times-Square-whore-my-ship-is-sinking mode. Songs for suicides...
DIED. KAREN WETTERHAHN, 48, chemistry professor at Dartmouth College who studied how toxic metals inhibit DNA repair; of poisoning, months after two drops of the rare compound dimethylmercury spilled onto her latex gloves; in Lebanon...
...Gore believes in extending the hand of government to nurture promising technologies. The case of Bill Haney and his toxic-waste washing machine shows the Vice President knows how to get a hand in return. In Washington it's often hard to line up the quid with the quo. But what this Massachusetts entrepreneur apparently got for the $82,000 he and his executives gave to Gore and the Democrats since 1994 is not hard to decipher: a fat contract from the Energy Department that kept being renewed over the objections of government scientists...
Haney, an environmental entrepreneur since his college days, when he launched a company to break down air pollutants, first went looking for government work in the last weeks of the Bush Administration. His technology, which neutralizes toxic detritus in a vat of iron heated to 3,000[degrees] F, seemed like a promising solution for the Energy Department's nuclear mess. So Molten Metal was chosen as one of 18 firms to obtain research grants. But even then there were some skeptical voices: Energy Department consultants warned in 1992 that Haney's process offered "no significant advantage" to "justify...
...just about Yosemite and the beauty of the wilderness. It is about cities--the air we breathe and the water we drink. When I speak in urban grade schools, their No. 1 issue is the rain forest! That is disempowering, when these communities are surrounded by incinerators and toxic dumps." At the student coalition, he pushed a lead-poisoning education project with materials in English, Spanish, Hmong and Vietnamese...