Word: toxicants
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...smirking brand of indie pop.Album-opener “Three-Way” jumps off with jangling fury, bursting to life with a shimmering lead keyboard and dueling guitars on a fuzzed-out new-wave riff. The instrumental din is completed by the echo of a toxic chromium scrape at the back of the mix, interrupted only by the chorus, a gregarious proclamation of the title.On previous albums, Merritt’s lyrics poked fun at contemporary conceptions of sex. “Distortion,” however, pushes those levels beyond the absurd and into the downright Freudian, with...
...been the overconsulted, fanatically tactical, poll-driven campaign - and Clinton has suffered whenever she has emphasized tactics over substance. Her lame attempts to "go negative" on Obama have been almost entirely counterproductive. Her husband's attempts to paint Obama as a "race" candidate - his resort to the most toxic sort of old-fashioned politics - only reinforced the strangely desperate nature of their campaign. It was the very opposite of "Yes, We Can" politics...
...heterosexual couples," Levenson says, "men become very sensitive to their wives' sadness and anger. It's toxic to most straight men and disappointing. They want their wives to idolize them, and they are very, very good anger detectors. And they don't see any of it as funny. In gay couples, there's a sense of 'We're angry, but isn't this funny...
This efficient and portable way to sense chemicals—toxic or benign—may make the largest waves in medicine as a noninvasive diagnostic device through “breath analysis.” Its high sensitivity can be manipulated to detect certain chemicals in the breath indicative of conditions including diabetes, ulcers, colon cancer, and cystic fibrosis...
...small laser chip may also be used for intelligence gathering in satellites and planes by detecting whether factories are releasing toxic compounds through their smoke...