Word: toxication
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Just following the money that Abramoff spread across Washington should give them plenty to do. So toxic are any campaign donations tied to him that panicked lawmakers from Hastert ($69,000) to Republican Senator Conrad Burns ($150,000) to Democratic Senator Max Baucus ($18,892) can't give it away to charities fast enough. Even President Bush is giving the American Heart Association the $6,000 that he received from Abramoff, his wife and one of the Indian tribes he represented. (See accompanying story...
...fruits and vegetables, there are some that relate to the brain. The pigments that account for the varied colors of vegetables and fruits have antioxidant properties that offer significant protection against cancer and other chronic diseases, as well as protection from a range of environmental toxins, including pesticides. Toxic injury to the brain is almost certainly the cause of Parkinson's disease, and probably amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). For that reason alone, it's a good idea to eat every day from as many parts of the color spectrum as you can. It's also a good...
...that under President Ferdinand Marcos, freedom was suppressed and an oligarchy was in place. Now we are free to speak up, and we have hundreds of rallies a year, sometimes with water cannons in our faces. But recent events have shown that politics in this nation has become overwhelmingly toxic. Hushed tones in coffee shops sometimes say, "We miss Marcos." Singapore is lucky to have a strong founder like Lee. He made mistakes, but he wasn't a tyrant and he genuinely cared for his people. Arvie de Vera Pasig, the Philippines...
...member of this group, fire boss Marty Bennett, had been traveling a few hundred feet in the rear, monitoring oxygen levels, and was killed instantly by the blast. The first group of miners ran into the shaft to try and save their friends, but was forced out by the toxic gases. As the rescue operation dragged on, with workers slowly reventilating the mine, video cameras lowered into holes indicated that the trapped men might have escaped the blast. Their transport rail car was discovered empty but intact, and the miners each carried an emergency oxygen tank, providing air for about...
...Here's another collision of cultures: chaotic modern Africa and the Europeans who once raped the continent and now, with toxic tests administered by a large pharmaceutical company, don't seem to mind killing it off. A British diplomat (super-pensive Ralph Fiennes) learns that his crusading bride (Rachel Weisz) has been killed on a trip into the bush, and goes searching for keys to her murder. Meirelles expands the scope of the John Le Carr? source novel out of the European compound and into Kenyan villages and plains. This Brazilian director, who also found a place...