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...built with Soviet technology, is China's showcase chemical complex, alma mater to the country's top chemical engineers. On the afternoon of Nov. 13, pressure built up in a 40-m tower at plant No. 101, where nitric acid and benzene are combined to make nitrobenzene, a highly toxic liquid. Technicians tried to relieve the pressure but failed, and the column exploded, killing five workers and injuring 70 others. Five more explosions followed. The blasts broke windows and produced a massive, orange cloud of smoke...
...from my first Bell Tower party: a random freshman licking the shoulder of my friend after spilling some beer on her as he exclaimed, “No problem, beer is delish!” and then continuing to sing along to Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” At the very least, we’ll all have some very unique (one might even say endearing) stories to tell when we’re older. Oh Harvard, I still love thee...
...another. Some contained less of the active ingredient than was specified on the label. Others were past their expiration date. Some were filled with inert lactose or powdered chalk. Still others were poison. In 1990 more than 100 Nigerian children died from a painkiller that had been made with toxic ethylene glycol instead of propylene glycol. In 2003 phony adrenaline led to the deaths of three children undergoing surgery in the city of Enugu. Akunyili's sister Vivian, a diabetic, died in 1988, a victim of fake insulin...
...menacing terrain, spiked with indictments and scandals and betrayal and grief. Some friends become less friendly because they know you are on your way to retirement while they are on their way to the next campaign. Your team gets tired, the ideas stale, and the fumes of power more toxic. It was through those badlands that President George W. Bush trudged last week, and for once he was walking alone. "The problem is that the President doesn't want to make changes," says a White House adviser who is not looking for a West Wing job, "but he's lost...
...community-action group, questioned some of the study’s findings. “Cambridge is pretty clean,” he said. Because Cambridge is very dense, Nakagawa said, the ranking is a result of unavoidable smaller violations, rather than a reflection of the presence of large toxic dumps. He said residents should be more concerned with air pollution from vehicles alone, a topic the study did not address. Faber said the report did not examine these air pollutants because Massachusetts does not release enough data on that subject. Yet Nakagawa agreed that organizing Cambridge residents against...