Word: toxication
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...seems ironic that nuclear energy is widely regarded as a greater environmental threat than dams, even though fission--with the jarring exceptions of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island--has caused relatively little harm. There may be huge calamities in its future, and its fiercely toxic fission products still have no demonstrably safe burial place. But dams, for all their material blessings, are responsible for some of the worst environmental tragedies in history...
...touching down on, but odds are you'll land somewhere near the broad equatorial belt. While temperatures elsewhere on Mars fall to a murderous -220[degrees]F, they can climb to a shirt-sleeve 68[degrees]F in the planet's tropics--not that Mars' thin, toxic air would ever allow you to strip down to your shirt sleeves...
...airline passenger knows, public anger with the airlines has reached nearly toxic levels in recent years, and it's possible that this pervasive sense of indignation may have contributed to the latest numbers. Has service actually worsened again, or has heightened awareness of bad service made passengers more likely to complain about perceived slights? It doesn't really matter. The airlines are facing what should be a public relations nightmare, but even this latest stream of damning evidence doesn't hurt them that much. In its own mind, the industry has already demonstrated a good faith effort to improve...
Conventional chemotherapy treatment typically gives patients high doses of toxic drugs to kill cancer cells and then prescribes a recovery period in which no drugs are administered...
...addition, giving lower doses of the standard drug proved "more effective and less toxic" in mice, the statement said...