Word: toxication
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Among modern technology's more unwelcome gifts is a man-made surplus of carbon monoxide, a toxic gas that cannot be seen or smelled. One way CO is formed is by burning any substance that contains carbon-fuel oil, for example, or tobacco. As a byproduct of the incomplete combustion of gasoline, CO is a prime ingredient of auto exhaust, which is the main source of air pollution in big cities...
...steam-generated plants require cooling water-as do many other basic industries-but reactors can use as much as 35% more water because they use heat less efficiently than plants fueled by coal or oil. Heat decreases the dissolved oxygen content in the water, makes existing pollutants more toxic, disturbs the reproduction cycle of fish and spurs the growth of noxious blue-green algae...
...Ramble On" perhaps represent Led Zeppelin's finest achievement. "Heartbreaker" reveals the group at its best, integrating creative solos and complex subordinate lines without verbosity, repetition, or loss of outline. "Heartbreaker" takes its place with "How Many More Times" as a genial yet cynical song about the sumptuous and toxic banquet of credulous infatuation. "Ramble On" is the structural successor to "Babe I'm Going to Leave You," in which several sections are unified by Plant's masterful use of slight dynamic and tempo adjustments. "Ramble On," perhaps Led Zeppelin Il's finest song, also affords a good illustration...
...though she has no taste for the stuff herself, as far as Margaret Mead is concerned, puffing on pot is not a dangerous pastime. In Washington to testify before a Senate subcommittee studying drug abuse, the aging (67) but very much tuned-in anthropologist asserted that marijuana is less toxic than tobacco and milder than booze. What is harmful, she said, is the law banning the drug. As she put it: "There is the adult with a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette in the other telling the child. 'You cannot.' " The answer, Dr. Mead told reporters...
...Richard I. Shader, assistant professor of Psychiatry, said he would prohibit the use of marijuana's more toxic strains, while he would subject the weaker strains to the same controls as alcohol...