Word: toxication
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Inside the abdominal cavity, a complex chemical movement, as in conventional hemodialysis, slowly begins. Toxic wastes and water from the bloodstream pass through the peritoneal membrane into the fluid. The process is allowed to continue for about five hours. Then the patient unwraps the empty plastic bag, lowers it to the floor, releases the clamp and lets the waste-laden fluid drain out of the abdominal cavity. Subsequently, a new bag of fluid is attached, and the procedure is repeated three times more at four-to eight-hour intervals every day. While the blood is being cleansed, patients...
...found it progressively more difficult and more expensive to meet the tougher and tougher standards coming into effect. Small businessmen and big companies are only now beginning to feel the high costs of complying with far-ranging regulations like the 1975 Hazardous Materials Transportation Act and the 1976 Toxic Substances...
Also in the works is a major expansion of the breeder reactor program, which has been stalled in the U.S. because of questions about reactor safety and concern over the breeder's role in the production-and proliferation-of plutonium, a highly toxic substance that can be used in weapons. The Soviets have a breeder reactor, which is used both to generate electricity and to desalinate water, on line at the Caspian Sea port of Shevchenko. They have a 600,000-kw breeder under construction near Beloyarsk in the Urals. They plan to build even more of these reactors...
...first a post-mortem study yielded no poison. But what doctors did find under Markov's skin was a tiny platinum-iridium pellet, 1.7 mm in diameter, with two holes, each a mere .4 mm wide, drilled in at right angles. The holes could have contained a toxic substance, either bacterial or chemical?quite possibly not traceable...
...books on the occult are offered for sale, from the works of Edgar Cayce to studies of UFOs and the Bermuda Triangle. Dowsing buffs can also buy every kind of tool, from little plastic rods (at $1 a pair) to miraculous electronic black boxes (price: $65) that purportedly "discharge toxic vibrations from your mind, emotions and etheric body." Explains Raymond Willey, the society's secretary and a retired General Electric engineer: "Dowsing for water is only the bottom rung of the ladder. Now these powers are used for everything from determining what foods to eat to finding lost objects...