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Similar incidents have occurred twice at Harvard in the last six months. In early October, a toxic spill forced the evacuation of the Mallinckrodt chemistry building, and an explosion in May at Converse Hall sent three students to the hospital...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chemical Spill Shuts Down HMS Building | 10/20/1998 | See Source »

Multiple emergency teams were called in to help evacuate the building, identify the chemicals and clean up the spill, including Harvard Environmental Heath and Safety Department, the Harvard University Police Department, the Boston Fire Department, a hazardous materials unit and Clean Harbors, a company specializing in toxic spill clean...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chemical Spill Shuts Down HMS Building | 10/20/1998 | See Source »

...Would the government have an ever greater incentive to control market fluctuations, if not the market itself? Could the government invest in a tobacco company? What about a company that was a toxic polluter a decade ago?" Levitt asked. "More broadly, assuming the government invests in individual equities as opposed to market indexes, would it be able to vote its shares...

Author: By Eric M. Green, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SEC's Levitt Discusses Challenging Future of Social Security | 10/20/1998 | See Source »

...your kids fool around with jimsonweed. Also known as locoweed, it grows wild, makes you high--and can be toxic. Kids who have eaten its seeds--including five last week in New Jersey--have become critically ill with hallucinations and seizures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...colleagues aim to enhance the ability of dendritic cells, an alarm conveyor in the immune system, to target the cancerous cells and make it easier for the body's killer T cells to recognize and destroy them. If it works, this approach promises a more effective and much less toxic alternative to the carpet bombing that is chemotherapy. After decades in which immune therapies have failed to live up to expectations, the field is advancing again, in part because of improved understanding of how the immune system works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Wasn't Going to Curl Up and Die | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

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