Word: toxically
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...School of Public Health (SPH) announced yesterday that it will join a local environmental group next month in launching an extensive survey of 35,000 residents of Woburn, Mass., in the nation's first comprehensive city-wide survey of the possible links between toxic waste contamination and community health...
Local and national attention was focused on Woburn last year when an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report named the town as having one of the ten worst toxic waste problems in the nation...
...grain itself is not toxic because endrin is sprayed only at the seedling stage, while only the tops of the mature plants are harvested. Birds, however, eat the seedlings...
...death. Because the first cases were reported near the U.S. airbase at Torrejon de Ardoz, people even talked about an accidental leak from American chemical warfare weapons which they be lieve are stored at the base. Spanish officials laughed off such charges. Said one: "If this is the most toxic germ weapon the Americans can manufacture, I don't think their enemies have much to fear...
...Buildings and Grounds (B&G) maintenance worker who was changing a chlorine tank below the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB) pool last Monday when a large amount of the toxic gas escaped said yesterday that the accident occurred when a valve he was tightening "popped off under heavy pressure...