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Imagine you are diagnosed with cancer and after discussing your options your oncologist schedules chemotherapy. The drugs, carefully calibrated to be just toxic enough to kill the cancer cells without completely killing you in the process, are your best chance for survival, even recovery...
...summer that Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat were huddling over a peace accord at Camp David. A year is an eternity in the Middle East. In the wake of last week's suicide bombing of a Jerusalem pizza parlor, the atmosphere of mistrust between Israel and Palestine is so toxic that Palestinian security officials accuse Israel of covertly distributing two tons of defective explosives in the West Bank, leading to the death of 25 bombmakers and causing injury to 100 others in 60 separate "work accidents" during the intifadeh. Israeli officials deny any plot, saying demand for explosives...
Milan Hajek has a way with waste. Back in 1997 he devised a means to use microwaves to melt glass around industrial waste laden with toxic heavy metals. The melted glass encapsulated the waste, thus making it safe for disposal...
...article about the Bush Administration's likely plan to rescind a Clinton-era executive order that forbids road-building (and therefore logging) on 60 million acres of public land. And several newspapers published pieces about the Environmental Protection Agency's pending decision on whether to loosen the rules governing toxic emissions from factories, a move heavily favored, not surprisingly, by the industries affected...
...Seeds of Simplicity program based in Los Angeles. Then there is the Center for a New American Dream, a Takoma Park, Md., group whose motto is "More fun, less stuff!" Says director Betsy Taylor: "This isn't just about unspoiling kids. It's about reclaiming our kids from a toxic commercial culture that has spun out of control...