Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Battling cancer with immune-system transplants is a straightforward--if searing--procedure. Used only with the most lethal cancers, it involves flooding the body with toxic chemotherapy drugs in an effort to overwhelm the malignancy. While the drugs do kill cancer cells, they also destroy most of the disease-fighting cells in the immune system. That's why doctors harvest marrow cells from the bones or stem cells from the bloodstream--both of which give rise to new immune cells--before they begin chemotherapy. When the treatment is done, these cells are reinfused into the body, in the hope that...
...Maria Perez and Fabiola Tostado, both 15, and Nevada Dove, 18, pore over this stuff as closely as most kids read music 'zines. Some nights you can find them at Nevada's house, reading the latest report out loud, highlighting anything that sounds weird. Her brother calls them the Toxic Crusaders, and with good reason. As three young members of Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles (CCSCLA), Maria, Fabiola and Nevada are activists in the cause of environmental health. They've handed out containers in which oil can be recycled and given warnings about lead poisoning. Most...
...Toxic Crusaders were not convinced. The day the school opened, the girls were on hand with a fact sheet about chromium. As they tried to pass it out, the police made them move 100 ft. from the school. "I think they were expecting us to do a protest or something," says Maria, "but we just wanted to hand out information...
SUBURBS Homeowners must wash cars less often and limit pesticide and herbicide use, all of which produce toxic runoff. Water-saving toilets can help maintain river levels. Owners of riverfront homes must eliminate antierosion bulkheads, which keep sand and debris from replenishing kelp beds that protect baby salmon...
INDUSTRY Waste heat and industrial runoff turn rivers warm and toxic--bad news for salmon, which like their water clear and cold. New pollution controls are needed...