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...home are now being marketed aggressively to consumers, but experts say home testing of any kind is a bad idea. The strips and swabs used by biohazard personnel to find anthrax in the field are not made for home use. They are designed for trained technicians equipped to handled toxic material...
Oddly, this team, although loaded with all the stars that owner George Steinbrenner's lucre could buy, has never resembled the arrogant Yankees of old. The Bronx Zoo of the late '70s, that toxic team of loudmouthed egos like Reggie Jackson and angry drunks like Billy Martin, has been succeeded by a collection of circumspect, workaday millionaires who get along well and play hard. It is also a team that understands loss and suffering. In the past two years, the fathers of star players O'Neill, Scott Brosius and Bernie Williams died lingering deaths during the course of the season...
...closed for two to three weeks. "It's a good thing we left," Gephardt reportedly told his staff, "and we probably should have left earlier." Senate leaders doubted the Hart Building would be closed that long, but it was no wonder Gephardt kept spinning: the decision was clearly toxic even if the air was not. By the time the report of the contaminated mailroom came Saturday, it was too late to do much more than damage control...
...Once this is accomplished it will be possible to create synthetic drugs that can work on a particular protein without affecting others, minimizing the risk of toxic side effects. Longer term, the company will focus on proprietary databases, information essential to the use of antibody arrays for proteomic screening of human cells and tissues...
...Staring at my chem textbook—15 percent: There I was, one of the lemmings, with my pipet dripping toxic “substances” and the frustrated members of my study group explaining why my problem set answers weren’t only wrong, but also defied the basic principles that define life…again...