Word: toxicants
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...that your doctor's office or hospital may be making you sicker. Indeed, many hospitals are built with materials, like particleboard, PVC flooring and even conventional paint, that can leach poisonous substances. What's more, the chemicals used to clean hospitals - chlorine, laundry detergents and softeners, ammonia - contain toxic ingredients and can cause respiratory disease. In fact, studies suggest that nurses, who spend long hours at the hospital, have among the highest rates of environmentally induced asthma of any profession...
Over the same time period, hospitals began eliminating their incinerators altogether, reducing one of the toxic byproducts of burning waste: dioxins. Says Gary Cohen: "In 1996 there were 4,200 medical incinerators in the country. Now there...
Critic Lewis Mumford observed that traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past, which resonates in a country founded by generations of pilgrims willing to leave everything behind and start anew. I try to resist the traps that can make traditions toxic: the temptation to use them as cover for prejudice and cowardice and conformity, a refusal to change or stretch--"we'll do it this way because we always have...
...wasn't at all sympathetic to complaints about civil rights abuses. We were treated like Negroes, to use a polite term. We were put in our place." - Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a former EPA employee whose complaints of a "racially toxic" environment there led to the signing of the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-Discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2001. (TIME...
...politician, of course, would want to put lots of space between himself and a toxic scandal like this one, in which the sitting governor stands accused of trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. Daley, though, has a special interest in trying to draw such a sharp line: not only has his own administration been dogged by patronage scandals and federal investigations, but John Harris, the governor's co-defendant and chief of staff, was once one of Daley's top lieutenants at City Hall. (See the top 10 scandals...