Word: toxicants
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...remain in their seats. But before the pilot, co-pilot and four flight attendants could begin to evacuate the plane, choking smoke, billowing up from the back of the aircraft, enveloped the cabin. Passengers in the rear section are believed to have been overcome immediately by smoke and the toxic fumes that result when polyurethane seat coverings, acrylic carpeting and plastic foam in the seats catch fire. Unlike the lucky few passengers on the JAL flight, for whom rear seats proved a lifesaver, passengers seated in the back of Flight KT 328 never had the slimmest chance of escape...
...North Cambridge research firm, located at 25 Acora Park, has been resting small amounts of toxic chemicals, for the Department of Defense since the fall...
...This decision upholds a city's power to reasonably regulate entities including defense contracts and to protect its citizens form the potential hazards that could result from the testing of super toxic chemicals," Cambridge's chief executive said...
...Cambridge City Councilor, indignant over this veiled form of discrimination toward the homeless in his own backyard, lashed out at his neighbors in a recent confrontation. "We're not talking about getting rid of toxic waste dumps here," he said. "We're talking about human beings...
Efforts to stem the arboreal tide have been futile. Stymied by a small budget, the National Park Service so far has been limited to spraying herbicides on some stands of Australian pines and attacking Melaleuca by slashing it with machetes and filling the cuts with toxic chemicals. "It's dire," says Marjory Stoneman Douglas, president of Friends of the Everglades, a conservation group. "If nothing is done, these trees are going to take over completely...