Word: toxicants
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...Easy This is a toxic time to kvetch. There are easy babies and cranky babies, and you know which one you are. "Does your commute suck? Too bad," says Viscusi with a big dollop of tough love. "Is your cubicle too small? Don't want to hear...
...Musharraf-era Pakistani official concurs, although the idea of U.S. soldiers fighting in Pakistan is so toxic that he asked that his name be withheld for fear of political repercussions. "Quite frankly, if Pakistan has the desire to carry out an action but doesn't have the capability, asking someone else to help makes sense," he said. Selling the idea to a Pakistani public already hostile to the U.S. war on terrorism, however, will be a lot more difficult. When asked how he would promote the idea, he just shrugged and smiled. With Musharraf out of the picture, selling Pakistanis...
...think it's got to be a part of a larger understanding. We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently...
Players may just have to accept the inferior stuff, however, since the ITTF is on a crusade to make table tennis more fan - and viewer - friendly. Releasing fewer toxic fumes into the air is one step. They also want to make the action a little easier to follow. After making its Olympic debut in Seoul in 1988, officials decided it was too hard to follow the fast-flying ball as it zipped from one end of the table to the other, so for the 2000 Games, they increased the regulation ball size to 40mm so even the most glassy-eyed...
...increasingly common among the Netherlands' homosexual men. At one Amsterdam clinic, run by the Public Health Service (GGD) of Amsterdam, researchers found that 18% of its 157 HIV-positive male patients had also contracted hepatitis C. "Because the hepatitis C virus attacks the liver and HIV/AIDS patients receive highly toxic antiretroviral drugs that take a toll on the liver, it makes treatment much more complicated," says Anouk Urbanus, who researches infectious-disease clusters for GGD Amsterdam...