Word: toxicants
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...alternative which they found in low budget flicks that spanned several genres—kung fu, horror, and car-chase, being just a few—which were played incessantly at the grungiest of local theaters.The plot of “Planet Terror” involves zombie-producing toxic gas (just go with it) released by renegade military gang led by a gun-totting Bruce Willis, a knife wielding hero and his one-legged Go-Go-Dancing biddy with a machine gun prosthetic (Freddy Rodriguez and Rose McGowan, respectively). Add blood, guts, brains, shooting, and general goopy splattering all around...
...regulations and concerns. Only two of the sensor nodes currently mounted collect weather data, while the rest are relay nodes that transmit the data, according to Bers. Welsh said that in the project’s early stages, the idea responded to a homeland security concern: monitoring levels of toxic waste. The researchers decided to pitch the project to the National Science Foundation, where the project was a “natural fit,” he said. The project began to receive funding from the National Science Foundation last August. According to Majid Ezzati, one of the project?...
That, however, was not the end of it. The body still had to be sliced and diced by a medical examiner, who predictably concluded that the cause of death was a toxic cocktail of prescription drugs—from methadone to choral hydrate (an ingredient of animal tranquilizers)—in her bloodstream...
Ever since the ancient Romans realized their plumbing was giving them gout, lead has been bad news. The plentiful-but-toxic metal has been banned by the federal government in everything from paint and water pipes to food containers and gasoline. And now, one of the poisonous element's last footholds in American culture - the ammunition used by the 25 million people who hunt for sport and food - is being targeted, as states across the country consider enacting bans on the use of lead for hunting...
...change in managing cancer reflects a series of hard-won improvements in treatment - not, alas, for every form of cancer, but particularly for breast, colon, prostate and even lung. The gains include an explosion of new drugs that are more targeted and less toxic than old-school chemotherapeutic agents. In addition, new tests are beginning to help doctors match drugs more precisely to the genetic and molecular makeup of an individual tumor. Finally, there are remarkable advances in managing the side effects of treatment, which, in the past, could be as debilitating as cancer itself...