Word: toxically
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...whole industrialized world is getting polluted, and emerging nations are unlikely to slow their own development in the interest of clearer air and cleaner water. The fantastic effluence of affluence is overwhelming natural decay-the vital process that balances life in the natural world. All living things produce toxic wastes, including their own corpses. But whereas nature efficiently decays-and thus reuses-the wastes of other creatures, man alone produces huge quantities of synthetic materials that almost totally resist natural decay. And more and more such waste is poisonous to man's fellow creatures, to say nothing of himself...
...sewage into rivers as he did in an earlier day, when vast reserves of pure air and water easily diluted the pollutants. The earth is basically a closed system with a waste-disposal process that clearly has limits. The winds that ventilate earth are only six miles high; toxic garbage can kill the tiny organisms that normally clean rivers. Today, industrial America is straining the limits...
...catastrophes befall these people. Their trials are in what one character calls the "courts of kitchen drama," where sadness and hilarity contend in a constant, shaky equilibrium. The teenage scientist of In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All prankishly pipes non-toxic gas into neighborhood apartments, only to kill off all the animals in his father's pet shop. Still, such trials can end with severe sentences. The deserted mother's vision of her husband's eventual return is affecting because it seems so hopeless. The teenager, unable to face the consequences of his experiment...
...deals in descriptions (sensational statistics on pollution, living density, educational inadequacies) that are not significantly relevant to what may be called the "unit of persuasion," the family and the individual. People are rarely motivated to make important personal choices by abstract arguments. "A teeming population" and the possibility of toxic air and spoiled natural resources are less real than the mother's desire to remain a healthy and happy companion to her children, the closing of a nearby playground to erect an apartment building, or the prohibitive costs of higher education. In a recent poll published in Eugenics Quarterly, only...
...doctor, a lawyer, a Cambridge City Planner, and two UHS administrators. All experimenters using human subjects are required to submit their proposals to this committee. Some decisions are clearly determined by FAS guidelines--especially those which involve the use of "physical stimuli, in abnormal amounts," the ingestion of toxic materials, or illegal drugs. But the majority of the cases are not so clearcut. The committee sizes up the issues, and makes its judgement...