Word: toxication
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LEVY: What are you going to do with that building [a new school built atop a toxic-waste dump]--your $150 million white elephant...
...ALERT Watch out for the Chinese herb Aristolochia fangchi. Already linked to kidney failure, it is now thought to be the cause of tumors in the kidney and elsewhere along the urinary tract among patients in Belgium who took it as part of a weight-loss program. The highly toxic herb is likely to be present in a host of botanicals, including Dutchman's pipe, guan mu ton, heart snake root and birthwort. The FDA plans to seize any substance with Aristolochia that turns up at U.S. ports...
...face, the notion seems utterly preposterous: a single technology so incredibly versatile that it can fight disease, stave off aging, clean up toxic waste, boost the world's food supply and build roads, automobiles and skyscrapers--and that's only to start with. Yet that's just what the proponents of nanotechnology claim is going to be possible, maybe even before the century is half over...
...when the U.S. Army funded a secret University of Michigan animal study of eight drugs, including MDMA. The cold war was on, and for years its combatants had been researching scores of substances as potential weapons. The Michigan study found that none of the compounds under review was particularly toxic--which means there will be no war machines armed with ecstasy-filled bombs. It also means that although MDMA is more toxic than, say, the cactus-based psychedelic mescaline, it would take a big dose of e, something like 14 of today's purest pills ingested at once, to kill...
...budding reputation as the "green" carmaker, he's hardly blind to profit. Ford will continue to build its giants, Mr. Ford declared Thursday, including the hulking Ford Excursion, because the market demand still exists. Off in the wings, however, the company will investigate ways to make SUVs less toxic - and will also research more manageable (i.e., smaller) alternatives to the ubiquitous monster trucks. The threat of increased gas prices, after all, continues to hang over the car industry, and a sharp increase in rates followed by a demand for smaller, more fuel-efficient cars would expose automakers' weak spot...