Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce, who spent more than two weeks reporting the activities of the Government's CDC for this week's cover stories, the agency is responsible for Americans' receiving the best protection in the world against such sudden and unexpected killers as toxic shock syndrome, Legionnaire's disease and swine flu. Boyce, who talked with CDC administrators, epidemic intelligence-service officers and public health officers, was doubly impressed by the agency's operations. Says he: "As a onetime premedical student who took courses in comparative anatomy, embryology and histology, I was fascinated...
...Environment. Offshore oil-tract leasing procedures and toxic-substance regulations could be overruled by House or Senate. Any federal sale of land parcels larger than 2,500 acres could be scotched. In 1981 Interior Secretary James Watt was stopped by a House committee from leasing mineral rights to 1.5 million acres of Montana wilderness...
Because checkerspots--a species which Bowers specializes in--feed on plants which contain secondary compounds called iridoid glycosoids, they are highly unpalatable to birds as well. These chemicals, Bower explains, may be toxic to some insects, but checkerspots have evolved mechanisms to excrete them quickly, sequester them in their exoskeleton or detoxify them. Thus the plant protects itself from most predators, and the butterflies render themselves "bitter" and in some cases nauseating. After feeding on members of these specialized species birds often throw...
However, new allegations continued to surface about EPA's management of the toxic-waste Superfund. In a press conference on Thursday, Representative John Dingell of Michigan charged that his committee's investigation into the agency had uncovered new evidence of wrongdoing by EPA officials. Dingell referred to a memorandum that Lavelle sent on Sept. 13, 1982, to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. In it she proposed that the announcement of some Superfund grants in New Jersey be timed to benefit the election campaigns of two Republicans and that the President make an appearance...
Located some 50 miles east of Los Angeles, the 22-acre Stringfellow Acid Pits are among the worst repositories of toxic waste in the U.S. Before the site was finally shut down in 1972, it was filled with nearly 34 million gal. of hydrochloric, sulfuric and phosphoric acids, chloroform, trichloroethylene and other poisonous manufacturing byproducts. Although California and federal authorities have spent $7 million to contain the damage, the lethal chemicals are still working their way into the ground water, threatening area residents and farms...