Word: toxication
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Case in point: halfway through the film, Dirk utters something like “Obviously the contaminants are coming from the source of the underground river.” Yes, obviously. Or my favorite: “Those barrels of toxic waste over there are being taken away to be evaporated by super-conductive solar power.” Clearly...
...heart would pound. But once the food had been devoured, I would be overcome with an urgent need to separate myself from it before it took up residence inside me. Nothing could have stood in the way of my getting rid of it, differentiating myself from it--from the toxic bulk that had seemed so like a mother's nurture in the beginning--because if it remained within me, I knew that my life would be snuffed out. Afterward I would collapse into bed and sink into a numbed sleep. Tomorrow will be different. It never was. What an illusion...
...There has been a fair amount of covert gloating in the liberal community over the congressional Republican flameout. Senator Bill Frist's ridiculous videotape diagnosis of the stricken woman, DeLay's toxic effusions, the President's unseemly dash to Washington to sign the Schiavo legislation all found their just rewards in the polls that revealed an overwhelming public disgust with the political shenanigans. But Democrats would be wise to stow their satisfaction and give careful consideration to what thoughtful conservatives are saying about the role of the judiciary in our public life because the issue is about...
Senator John F. Kerry, D-Mass., said in a statement, “Why did the administration hide its own research on toxic mercury pollution when the health of women and children is on the line? How can you make the right decision when the facts are buried to help corporate special interests...
...salmonella's favorite place to go," says David Bermudes, director of microbiology at Vion. With a simple change in the bacterium's genome, the Vion team and Yale scientists were able to give salmonella the ability to convert a powerful compound found naturally in the body into a toxic chemotherapy agent. In a small pilot study conducted at the Mary Crowley Medical Research Center in Dallas, 2 of 3 patients given the modified salmonella showed signs that the chemotherapy agent was active. "It's a proof of principle that the strategy is working," says Bermudes. While his team seeks...