Word: toxication
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...Prime Number 400 euro notes consumed could cause serious illness, according to the European Central Bank, which says the bills' inks and dyes are mildly toxic...
Banishing smokers from offices, restaurants, malls and airplanes has been a big success--for nonsmokers anyway. The Centers for Disease Control reports that the levels of toxic chemicals produced in nonsmokers' blood by secondhand smoke have plunged more than 75% since they were last measured 10 years ago. That's great news, considering that secondhand smoke is blamed for thousands of cancer and heart-disease deaths each year...
...report is Texas epidemiologist Dr. Robert Haley; he has been studying Gulf War veterans for eight years, hoping to pin down the cause of a syndrome that left them chronically fatigued, nauseated, anxious and depressed. He says his findings--that some veterans suffered brain damage from exposure to toxic chemicals on the battlefield--were routinely denounced by the VA and the Department of Defense...
...recent purchase has brought criticism that rivals the condemnations streaming forth from Watertown. The Arsenal, a former military base that once required $100 million in toxic waste clean-up before it could be converted into offices, was viewed as the fiscal savior of the mostly residential suburb. The millions of dollars in taxable property it represented were already being considered for school improvements, library renovations and road repairs. But under an 1830 Massachusetts law creating special privileges for non-profits, Harvard, as the new owner, is not required to pay any taxes on the property...
...Since 1987, Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert has been the only permanent repository the Department of Energy has considered to store the toxic garbage for at least the next 10,000 years. But Nevada's congressional delegation, led by the Senate's powerful majority whip, Harry Reid, has been fighting tooth and nail to keep the underground nuclear dump out of their state. Yucca Mountain is just 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas and they fear radioactivity from an underground storage facility there would eventually leak, contaminating nearby ground water used for drinking...