Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Guidotti, working with Schechter, suspects that eugenol--or some byproduct created when it is burned--immobilizes infection-fighting cells, allowing viruses and bacteria already present in the lungs to run amuck. The other possibilities, he says, are that eugenol or another ingredient has a direct toxic effect or that it triggers an acute allergic reaction. Last month the American Lung Association issued a preliminary warning about clove cigarettes, and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta plan to look for further evidence of kretek-induced illness...
Despite widespread indifference, some progress in waste management is beginning to emerge. Both California and Louisiana, among the leaders in policing efforts, now have "toxic-material task forces." Under the direction of the state police, the Louisiana unit has full jurisdiction over transportation of hazardous goods in the state, and frequently stops careless truckers of dangerous materials to hand out fines. A toxic-waste "strike force," serving the county of Los Angeles for the past two years, boasts that it has sent twelve high-ranking officials from various companies to prison for illegally dumping hazardous waste. The message, says Barry...
...development is critical to the survival of the poorest, painstaking environmental concerns and flawless safeguards against disaster often seem like impossible or impractical luxuries. Lurching sometimes, stumbling at others, technology and its many implications move forward. "As a society," says Michael Brown, author of Laying Waste, a study of toxic chemicals in America, "we have to accept reasonable risks in order to reap reasonable benefits." Knowing the benefits is easy. The hard part is achieving acceptable odds on the risks. -By Natalie Angler. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Peter Stoler/New York, with other bureaus
While Michigan resisted the reduction, other states with healthy surpluses are under pressure to trim taxes and restore program cuts. In New Jersey, where the 1985 surplus may wind up as high as $800 million, politicians from both parties have put toxic-waste cleanup at the top of a long list of demands. New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who reports a surplus of $207 million, is designing a broad tax-reform plan that will include income tax reductions. In California, Governor George Deukmejian plans to pump money into education, highway construction and environmental projects. Says William Hamm, an analyst...
Last week in a place most Americans never heard of, more than 2,500 residents of Bhopal, India, were killed by leaking toxic gas. How deeply did we really feel that news? Numbers are always tossed up first in such events, but almost as a diversion; there seems a false need to know exactly how many died, how many were hospitalized; reports supersede reports. When the count is finally declared accurate, it is as if one were mourning a quantity rather than people, since the counting exercise is a way of establishing objective significance in the world. Still, we wept...