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...Toxic is fast becoming the hot-button word. Books include Toxic Parents and Toxic Psychiatry. A USA Today headline last week trumpeted SHE FOUGHT TOXIC RACISM AND WON. Next: toxic ideas. You are what you think...
...original, customized packing crates and, if overseas, flown back to the U.S. Under heavy guard, they are then shipped to Pantex by truck or train, along routes that are constantly changed and always kept secret. The most sensitive part of disassembly comes not in handling the uranium and highly toxic plutonium, which are shielded in metal, but in dealing with the conventional explosives needed to trigger a nuclear chain reaction. Disassembly therefore takes place in underground bunkers known as "Gravel Gerties," whose roofs are mounded with gravel to contain any accidental blasts...
...Channel-at 25 Necco St. in Boston. Call 451-1905. Thursday: Bentmen with Biohazard, Type O Negative and Toxic Narcotic. 18 and over. Saturday: Cartoon Factory with Mystery Jones, Paris, Posse NFX and Mr. Dizzy. Tuesday: Armored Saint with Wrath Child America and Last Crack. 18 and over. Wednesday: Acoustic Alchemy. 18 and over...
...latest clue in the mystery of implantation was hit upon by scientists working on a completely different problem: lazy sperm. Some sperm lack the ability to penetrate the egg's outer membrane, or zona pellucida, often as a result of old testicular injuries or early exposure to toxic chemicals. Several methods have been devised to give these sperm a boost, including microinjection (the sperm is inserted directly into the egg by means of a microscopic needle) and partial zona drilling (a tiny hole is made in the egg's protective shell...
...Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City found that lecithin, which is abundant in soybeans, may help prevent alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. Isoflavones in the beans have been shown to prevent liver cancer in animals by breaking down toxic agents that can cause the malignancy. A strong word of warning about soy: it also contains protease inhibitors, which have been linked to the development of pancreatic cancer...