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...what about Biden? He's apologizing like crazy, but his presidential bid is dead. Is this fair? No, it isn't. You can believe, if you want, that his legendarily overactive tongue released something toxic deep inside his middle-aged white male head. And maybe you are confident that nothing similar could possibly spill out of yours. Or you can decide that no man is responsible for his subconscious, and judge him by his spin, not by his gaffes...
...What's Toxic in Toyland" [Dec. 11] included misleading information about substances that make plastic toys and other children's products soft (phthalates) and shatterproof (bisphenol A., or BPA). Phthalates have been used in consumer products for more than 50 years. During that time, no reliable research has ever found that phthalates cause negative health effects in humans. The Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2003 completed a four-year review of the main phthalate used in vinyl toys (called DINP) and found "no demonstrated health risk" and "no justification" for banning it, as the City of San Francisco has done...
...After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the river, which flows near the reactor, became radioactive. With toxic silt still flowing downstream in the Pripyat, which is some 441 miles long, a dam on the left bank has been the only effective countermeasure, and dredging remains dangerous...
...Images of 2006 One thing that "The Best Photos of the Year" [Dec. 18] showed us is how much more beautiful the world would be without the toxic influence of American and Israeli politics. Natalia Agapiou Brussels...
...problem of racism in American discourse is typified by the N-word outburst of comedian Michael Richards followed by his abject apology, the French variant is altogether more toxic. The latest outrage came from second-string TV personality and self-appointed social commentator Pascal Sevran, whose recently published book included the obscenely racist idea that the "black [penis] is responsible for famine in Africa." Elaborating in a newspaper interview, Sevran said, "Africa is dying from all the children born there" to parents supposedly too sexually undisciplined or dumb to realize they could not feed them all. The answer...