Word: toxicants
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...Washington blocked imports of tainted food and recalled unsafe toys while Beijing cracked down at home and fought to salvage the reputation of the "Made in China" label. But last weekend the conflict turned personal when it emerged that the head of a factory responsible for producing the toxic toys had killed himself...
...procedure has faced ethical complications due to the necessary use of immunosuppressants, or anti-rejection drugs, to prevent the patient’s immune system from rejecting the donor tissue. These toxic drugs expose patients to infection and increase the risk of cancer, prompting many to quesiton whether it is right to subject patients to such risks for a non-lifesaving procedure...
...Desert is in passing a requiem for Ravenna, the medieval city whose air, fields and water were poisoned by the toxic waste regurgitated by big factories there. But is essentially an experiment in color. This time, reality wasn't good enough for the neo-neo-realist. He painted the earth a sludgy gray, and found a sickly yellowish color for the canals, as if they had vomited on themselves. (He also gave Vitti red hair). It was all in aid of showing the already polluted city through the eyes of the schizophrenic wife and mother played by Vitti. "I have...
...among neurons, glutamate works fine unless you've got too much on hand. Then the signals just keep coming. In the case of the alarm centers in the brain, that means the warning bell just keeps on ringing. "Glutamate has to be taken up quickly because otherwise it becomes toxic to the brain cells," says Vladimir Coric, director of OCD research at Yale University and a leader in studies of the chemical...
...short, society treats "boyhood as toxic, as a pathology," says Sommers--who may have been guilty of this herself when she wrote several years ago that the Columbine killers were emblematic of turn-of-the-century boyhood. But she's right that it's not girls who are shooting up their classrooms--and boys are at least five times as likely as girls to die by suicide...