Word: toxicants
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...destructive activities of that all-purpose villain, man, are not wholly irreversible. A decade ago, Oregon's Willamette River was the most polluted waterway in the Pacific Northwest. Even scavenging fish could not survive its toxic atmosphere. After a concerted drive by environ mentalists, government officials and just plain anglers, the river has become so pure that the delicate trout and salmon can be found throughout its reaches...
...have developed a rational alternative. We fed some coyotes a lamb pattie treated with a toxic salt. This made them sick, but they soon recovered. After one or at most two treatments, these sheep killers refused to attack lambs...
...study provided other insights into alcoholism, which Rubin and Lieber consider to be one of man's worst "environmental" ailments. Because pure alcohol was used exclusively, it became evident that the toxic effects were the result of the alcohol itself and not, as some researchers have suggested, caused by any of the impurities or additives found in beer, wine or hard liquor. Concludes Rubin: "You can't protect yourself against alcoholic damage by eating well; what counts is the total amount of alcohol you drink...
Down through the centuries, no civet has been found to sweeten the toxic war between the sexes. Every seeming peace is breached: no cease-fire is ever signed. Perhaps that is why the theme has exerted such a powerful hold on the imaginations of dramatists, for the playwright must rely above all things on conflict. And the scourging struggle between a man and a woman whose love has turned to hate is probably without equal...
...danger of extinction. In a complex court case now in its twelfth week, the Government is suing to halt Reserve Mining from dumping 67,000 tons of ore wastes per day into Lake Superior, charging that it is dangerously polluting the once pristine lake, depleting herring fisheries and releasing toxic asbestos fibers into the water...