Word: toxicities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral ecology of American politics is altering. Issues that figured in the Reagan revolution -- family values, school prayer, abortion, pornography -- remain powerful. But some of them will be in collision with problems such as AIDS, homelessness, racism, toxic waste, business ethics, nuclear disarmament and the national debt -- a more public agenda, one that veers somewhat away from religion...
...more exotic explanation was posed in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985 by Dr. Alexander Langmuir, formerly chief epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Thucydides' description, Langmuir theorized, fit the criteria for influenza complicated by toxic shock syndrome. And although this peculiar combination of ailments had never been observed by modern physicians, Langmuir predicted that "Thucydides syndrome," as he called it, "may reappear," perhaps as part of some future epidemic of influenza...
Though most U.S. cases of toxic shock occur in menstruating women, often in conjunction with the use of tampons, this was not true of the flu victims. Four of the eleven were males, and only two of the females were menstruating at the time they fell ill (both said they were not using tampons). The patients ranged in age from five to 56, but most of the deaths were among children. Says Dr. Kristine MacDonald of the Minnesota Department of Health: "There is some suggestion that younger people are more susceptible to TSS. As people get older, more of them...
...coupling and derailed, spilling 19,000 gallons of orthochlorophenol. Sturgeon was evacuated for two days while the spill was cleaned up. Then Monsanto announced that the spilled chemical contained a minute amount of dioxin, the type designated as 2,3,7,8-TCDD and described as the most toxic synthetic chemical known to man. A mere thimbleful was involved. But because the compound has been linked to cancer, fear swept Sturgeon, and the Kemner case took shape...
...Orleans hotel room. The two performers might seem unlikely company -- the star of 9 1/2 Weeks and the prima donna of the Cosby kids -- but their exertions were no more extreme than the acrobatics in many an R- | rated teen farce, and the carnal violence was a lot less toxic than the damage Freddy or Jason or any other horror-show serial killer wreaks in an eyewink. Further, the intent of Director Alan Parker was serious and free of titillation. The board's game was a sick joke at the expense of ambitious filmmakers, and it was resolved last week...