Word: toxication
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...close enough. Her family lives in Al Zubair, a town on Iraq's border with Kuwait. This area was heavily bombed during the Gulf War. According to the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute, more than 900,000 depleted uranium tipped bullets were fired. When they exploded, say experts, toxic substances were released in the ground and air, and after four or five years, entered the food chain, affecting human lives. Gulf War syndrome has been reported in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and even among American soldiers on the ground. (Washington denies that the illnesses are caused by depleted uranium.) The Iraqi...
...lies below the neck can also be harmed by less acute kinds of brain disturbances. The chronic stress that millions of people feel from simply trying to deal with the pressures of modern life can unleash a flood of hormones that are useful in the short term but subtly toxic if they persist. Thus it shouldn't come as a surprise that stress-reduction strategies that take pressure off the mind--meditation, yoga, relaxation exercises and such--can take the heat off the body as well...
FRENCH FRIES Cooking potatoes and other starchy foods at high temperatures can trigger the formation of acrylamide, a compound that has been shown to cause cancer in lab rats. Scientists also know there are toxic consequences to breathing the acrylamide in cigarette smoke. So are chips and fries even worse for us than we thought or just the latest food fright? A report by the American Council on Science and Health concludes that we can relax. There is no evidence that acrylamide, when consumed in food, poses a cancer risk. But all the other reasons for going easy on deep...
...already take some form of antidepressant.) It's a question that arises only because SSRIs are relatively mild and subtle medications. There are plenty of drugs that can make you feel better, at least temporarily--alcohol and heroin come immediately to mind--but they tend to be addictive or toxic or both. Prozac is neither...
...group of 15 "Chechens" to gravitate to Europe via Turkey. Six of those 15, according to French sources, were among nine people arrested in raids last month in La Courneuve and Romainville, north of Paris. Investigators say they have no doubt the groups were working together to produce toxic-chemical bombs. Merouane Benahmed, an Islamist known to have received explosives training in Afghanistan and the Caucasus, was among those arrested in La Courneuve on Dec. 16. Eight days later, Menad Benchellali, a self-proclaimed "chemist" and veteran of Afghan camps and the Pankisi Valley, was caught in Romainville. Material evidence...