Word: toxicants
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...campaign against the use of toxic pesticides by California fruit growers must continue, said renowned leader of migrant workers Cesar Chavez in a speech last night at the Kennedy School...
...second and more toxic assault on baseball was waged in the late '60s and early '70s by the multi-purpose school, a group of well-intentioned but misguided municipal officials who widely spewed the sacrilege that football and baseball could be played in the same stadium...
Most of the excitement, however, is being generated by a group of vitamins -- C, E and beta carotene, the chemical parent of vitamin A -- that are known as antioxidants. These nutrients appear to be able to defuse the volatile toxic molecules, known as oxygen-free radicals, that are a byproduct of normal metabolism in cells. These molecules are also created in the body by exposure to sunlight, X rays, ozone, tobacco smoke, car exhaust and other environmental pollutants...
...Black Sea have wagered their lives to dig the riches of coal. At 8 p.m. last Tuesday, 265 miners lost that gamble when a methane explosion bellowed from deep within the Incirharmani mine outside the city of Kozlu, instantly transforming miles of galleries into a subterranean conflagration of toxic gas. Rescuers pulled out 118 bodies before the inferno forced them to seal the passages with cinder blocks, entombing the remaining victims in the still burning mine...
Deputy Fire Chief John J. O'Donoghue said that about 15 fire fighters entered the building to assess the situation and test for the presence of any toxic gasses or combustible fumes...