Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experts who built the welfare system didn't intend to create a toxic culture of dependency. And it turns out the reformers offering antidotes didn't anticipate some of their own side effects either...
...head upriver, away from the power plants, I ask whether the river, let alone, would repair itself. Not always, they say. The toxic industrial chemicals known as PCBs, which were discharged into the river by General Electric plants until the company agreed to stop, do not biodegrade; they have to be removed. Pollutants have a cumulative effect--what Cronin calls "the death of a thousand cuts." An individual polluter says, "What I alone am doing is not harming this river," which may be so. But Kennedy and Cronin insist the plants that we passed--four in five minutes--are working...
...hours for bacteria to get from the tick into your bloodstream, it pays to remove ticks as soon as you can. Don't try holding a burnt match to the tick to make it back out. Apart from scorching yourself, you'll just provoke it into regurgitating its potentially toxic baggage into your body. Instead, take a pair of tweezers, line them up alongside the tick's body and as close to your skin as you can and gently pull out the tick. Be sure not to squeeze or crush the tick, as that can force its insides into your...
Everything in Hamilton's show follows from that statement. Inside the pavilion, the high white walls are covered with Braille that translates tales of American violence from Charles Reznikoff's poetry book Testimony: the United States, 1885-1915: recitative. Down the walls, bright fuchsia powder, with its overtones of toxic waste, falls from tanks hidden in the ceilings. The artist's recorded voice whispers Lincoln's second Inaugural Address, with its moving call for healing during the savagery of the Civil War, but it too is interpreted, spelled out in the phonetic alphabet used by pilots (Alfa for a, Bravo...
There are a multitude of causes, including normal aging, poor dental hygiene, infections and viruses, exposure to toxic fumes, and head trauma. "It's much easier to prevent than to treat," says Dr. Alan Hirsch, neurological director of Chicago's Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation. "I always encourage people to wear seat belts to avoid head trauma. Avoid use of cigarettes. Avoid use of illegal drugs like cocaine." Marcia Levin Pelchat, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, offers a simple piece of advice: "Stay healthy." Elderly people who are healthy have better flavor perception than...