Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year battle over toxic waste at Love Canal reached an anticlimax as New York State settled a $630 million lawsuit against Occidental Chemical Corp. for a bargain $98 million. Occidental's corporate predecessor, Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp., buried 22,000 tons of toxic waste near the Niagara Falls neighborhood from 1942 to 1953. Most of the town was evacuated in the mid-1970s when the contamination was widely reported. Despite the settlement today, Occidental's problems are far from over: many individual suits, as well as a federal action, brought against the company over Love Canal continue to percolate...
Until that point, antibiotics can easily wipe it out. What makes severe, invasive strep A different is that the microbe itself is "ill," infected with a virus. The virus tricks the bacterium into pumping out a highly toxic chemical. Among the possible effects: a catastrophic drop in blood pressure (which contributed to the death of Muppetmeister Jim Henson in 1990); scarlet fever; or, as the recent news reports point out, "necrotizing fasciitis," an illness that can eat away fat and muscle at the astounding rate of up to one inch an hour. If that last process starts, the only treatments...
...strategy they collectively represent. Increasingly, researchers speak not of slaughtering the cancer cell but of tricking it into dying naturally, perhaps of old age, as other cells do. They also talk of reining in the cancer cell, even rehabilitating it, a task that demands the development of less toxic drugs that can be tolerated over a lifetime. The model for cancer therapy of the future already exists. "After all, we don't cure diseases like diabetes and hypertension," says Dr. Lance Liotta, the National Cancer Institute's leading metastasis expert."We control them. Why can't we look at cancer...
...Here's a fresh concern: lead spewed into the skies above Europe by ancient silver smelters as far back as 2,600 years ago. The toxic by-product has been discovered in lake sediment in Sweden; the lead traces could still cause poisoning...
...program with our paper suppliers that will significantly reduce a troubling side effect of magazine production that has plagued publishers. To whiten magazine stock, paper plants have long used a chlorine bleaching process. In 1985 the Environmental Protection Agency discovered that this procedure produces traces of dioxin, a highly toxic chemical, in waste water at the plants. Looking for ways of solving the problem, TIME asked its mills to substitute a different bleaching process that does not produce any detectable levels of dioxin. Most of the paper in this magazine is now produced that way. We have asked our other...