Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from the right can't work; but governing from the left won't work either. The only way that real change - a universal health-care system (along the lines enacted by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts), a real alternative energy plan, progressivity in taxation and entitlement reform, a cooperative non-toxic foreign policy-will come is through coalitions built from the center out. And those coalitions will only flourish in a public atmosphere of civility, humanity and compromise...
...expected to care about whether their new place increased our dependence on fossil fuels or used wood from destructively clear-cut forests. And if altruistic motives don't move them much, they certainly might care about the harm to themselves and their families from homebuilding materials that emit toxic chemicals into the air of their nice living rooms. Could it be that one reason those women on Desperate Housewives are so desperate is that their houses are full of polyvinyl chlorides? You might suspect there's even worse stuff in their breast implants, but still...
...that overlooks the Pacific and a nearby marine-and-bird sanctuary. In a recent e-mail to TIME, they described what they had in mind from the outset: "rustic materials compatible with other homes in the community, [something] snuggled into the landscape, low impact on neighbors, no or low toxic impact on the carpenters, low impact on the site?spacious feeling without being big, cozy without being cramped...
...cores of the forms are filled with concrete to become walls that resist fire, termites and rot. Even the concrete has a high content of fly ash, a waste by-product from power plants that requires less energy to produce than standard cement. Plus, there was minimal reliance on toxic chemicals in things like adhesives or piping. "Anything that ends in an 'ethylene'?you definitely want that out," says Good. "Also, no chlorines, no benzenes...
...female politicians, tears are, of course, toxic. No one wants to imagine the tragedy grand enough that Hillary Clinton or Condoleezza Rice could let their waterworks flow. I am, however, less confident that this means they are raring to engage in direct debate. Hillary and Condi will never cry in public - but that doesn't mean we'll ever know what they're really thinking, even...