Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Condors find food in open flatlands where shrubbery will not hamper takeoffs. They used to live on cliff tops around California's Central Valley and fly to lowlands where hunters shot deer and left "gut piles" full of bullet fragments of toxic lead...
...grim statistics have led most women and their doctors to opt for additional treatment beyond surgery: radiation, chemotherapy with toxic drugs, and hormonal therapy with tamoxifen pills, which block the estrogens that can stimulate tumor growth. Though millions of research dollars and hours have been poured into determining which treatments work best for which patients, the results have often been contradictory and confusing...
...other political assassinations, or the Iran-contra-Pentagon-CIA attempt at a secret government. Detente with communist Russia and China . . . ((would have saved defense dollars)) that could have been put to use caring for the needy and cleaning up the environment . . . no organized-crime control over drugs, gambling . . . even toxic waste . . ." One feels Marrs believes that if Kennedy had lived the toxic waste just wouldn't have been as toxic anyway, because of all the fine, purifying Camelot vibes...
...dozens of American prisoners still being held captive in Southeast Asia or China or the former Soviet Union. The industry thrives on false leads, bogus photographs and unprovable allegations about the fate of the 2,273 U.S. servicemen still unaccounted for 17 years after the war ended. Its toxic by-products are the protracted pain of the relatives of the MIAs and continuing public confusion about the extremely remote possibility that there might be any POWs still alive in Vietnam or anywhere else...
Fresh studies and new interpretations of old data suggested that some feared substances -- dioxin, radon and asbestos -- were less toxic or carcinogenic than previously thought. They aren't exactly part of a complete breakfast, but slight exposures aren't inevitably fatal either...