Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toxic waste at an arsenal...
...lethal phosphorus wastes from incendiary bombs, unexploded rockets and mortar shells embedded in a former firing range, millions of cubic yards of soil peppered with pesticides and an abandoned five-story production plant contaminated with nerve gas. Two vast man-made lagoons, once used as dump pits for toxic chemical and biological wastes, are the worst menaces of all. Toxic wastes have leached out of both ponds, infecting the area's ground water and killing crops...
Despite the initial success, the researchers remain extremely cautious. Though only one patient experienced mild and transient nausea and vomiting, doctors worry about administering a toxic anticancer drug forlong periods. Another concern: What other genes are being altered? A fear is that the drug approach may inadvertently switch on recently discovered cancer genes that apparently lie dormant in most people. Nonetheless, noted Hematologist Edward Benz of Yale University School of Medicine, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the NEJM, "this research represents a major new step in treating disease and demonstrates beyond doubt that genetic manipulation has come...
...forum included three activists currently involved in the struggle against toxic dumping in Warren Country. North Carolina...
...President Curtis Hairston '84 said that the BSA is trying "to address those issues which affect all Black people and toxic example of a topic of concern to Black Americans...