Word: toxication
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...weeks ago, the Senate leadership announced it had decided to go the gas-bomb route, in which the entire building is sealed off and flooded with chlorine-dioxide gas. The toxic fog would seep into rugs, drapes and anywhere else anthrax may have landed--including the building's own respiratory system, its network of ventilation shafts. But gas, too, has drawbacks, including the damage it can do to artwork and furniture and the fact that it doesn't work as effectively if the temperature isn't maintained at 70[degrees]F and humidity at 50% to 70%. "Doing this...
...matter what shortcomings gas bombing has, it does have a few unintended benefits. Toxic as chlorine dioxide is to anthrax, it's also murder on mice, roaches and all manner of other vermin that may elude conventional extermination. But as the gas dissipates, it leaves behind a fine, white powder that looks rather like the contents of the original letter sent to Daschle--the last thing skittish Senate staff members and postal employees want to find on their desks and machinery when they return to work...
...suspicion of things around us is more toxic than any threat. It won't be nerve gas that destroys us--it will be our own fears." AMY M. MALLOY Kodiak, Alaska...
...threatening. Frankly, it was pretty hurtin’…I guess the only other time I felt things were a little suspect was at a club where they pulled the ole pre-mix-in-a-cooler gag. It was total suicide punch; just inhaling its toxic fumes made my head swim… So, yeah, of course girls need to be careful when they go to final clubs, because call ’em what you want, they’re frats. Just because they’re private clubs for Harvard boys doesn’t mean...
...security. Instead they use as tools of war the bonds of trust that allow society to function—the trust that a stranger is not trying to kill us whenever we board an airplane or open our mail. We can improve our airport security and watch our toxic waste trucks, but we can never think hard enough to imagine everything a bin Laden could imagine—like attacking the Pentagon with boxcutters. And no matter how many armed guards we post, they only work against someone who’s afraid of getting shot...