Word: toxicants
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...Happening Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan; rated R; out now A toxic breeze blows through the northeastern U.S., and people start killing themselves. A married couple (Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel) goes on the run to stay alive, but nothing can save the lamest sci-fi drama yet from the auteur of The Sixth Sense. Laced with bizarre histrionics and sluggish scare tactics, The Happening is an ill wind indeed...
...feast on. That don't-go-there approach was Barack Obama's plan for months until, on the candidate's first full day of campaigning as his party's presumed presidential nominee, a reporter from McClatchy Newspapers who was traveling aboard his plane asked him about a particularly toxic bit of hearsay that was zooming around the Internet about his wife Michelle. Obama lost his cool. "We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails, and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it," Obama...
Alice Park's article "how safe are vaccines?" left out two critical facts [June 2]. One is that when mercury was taken out of childhood vaccines, it was replaced with other toxic preservatives such as formaldehyde and aluminum. Second, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be correct that there is no scientific evidence that vaccines are causing the rising wave of autism, they do not make the public aware that there are no scientific studies proving that vaccines are not to blame. Our government and pharmaceutical companies have not conducted any long-term double-blind placebo...
...Paxil from GlaxoSmithKline, Celexa from Forest Pharmaceuticals and others - existing antidepressants had many disabling side effects. Impaired memory and judgment, dizziness, drowsiness and other complications made them ill suited for troops in combat. The newer drugs have fewer side effects and, unlike earlier drugs, are generally not addictive or toxic, even when taken in large quantities. They work by keeping neural connections bathed in a brain chemical known as serotonin. That amplifies serotonin's mood-brightening effect, at least for some people...
Since the takeover of University Hall in 1969 during the height of the Vietnam War, Harvard’s relationship with the military has alternated between tense and toxic...