Word: toxically
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...carefully measuring the sulfur content of samples taken from the caverns. Her work proved that Carlsbad was carved not by carbonic acid but by sulfuric acid, produced by a reaction between oxygen dissolved in groundwater and hydrogen sulfide bubbling up from deep below the earth's surface. This highly toxic solution, which would have killed anyone present at the time, sculpted the many subterranean chambers at Carlsbad...
...than 30 m (100 ft.) a year. But about 20% of the U.S.'s fresh water flows through the myriad cavities and pores of limestone karst, often traveling 1 km (0.6 mile) overnight, taking unpredictable turns and sometimes bubbling up to the surface through a spring. Containment of a toxic spill in such terrain is virtually impossible. Even ordinary garbage that is dumped in a sinkhole can contaminate groundwater miles away...
...potential for disaster is only beginning to be appreciated. For years residents and businesses around Bowling Green, Kentucky, pumped or buried solvents and wastes in the ground, heedless of the fact that the city of 40,000 sits on karst. In effect, they turned the underlying caves into a toxic sewer. Twice during the 1980s, benzene and other chemicals rose up from the caves into homes and elementary schools, endangering people's lives...
Malcolm's style was cooler than King's, more lawyerly than evangelical; its bitter logic cut like a knife at the throat of complacent white America. Even in the time of Malcolm's most toxic demagoguery -- defaming liberals as white devils, civil rights heroes as Uncle Toms and Jews for sapping "the very lifeblood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel" -- his steely charisma beguiled the white media. In Harlem he was something more than a diversion: he was the prophet of the black male underclass. "It was manhood time," says Al Freeman Jr., who played...
...Freon; Bad Lieutenant is sulfur. Ferrara's fifth film, about a New York City police officer (Keitel again) caught in a toxic vortex of drugs, sex and gambling, has been rated NC-17. Two scenes are indelibly repellent. In one, a nun is raped in a church; in the other, the cop viciously and pathetically humiliates two teenagers with verbal sexual abuse. The movie, a lapsed Catholic's anguished prayer for last-minute salvation, says the cop is so addicted to sin he can't enjoy it. "Vampires are lucky," observes the cop's junkie girlfriend (co-screenwriter Zoe Lund...