Word: toxicity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pharmaceutical-company research departments and academic labs around the country, scientists are feverishly at work on drugs that target the products of specific genes--the very genes that make a cell cancerous. The hope is that these treatments will be more effective, longer lasting and far less toxic than traditional chemotherapy and radiation--treatments that inspire dread so deep that they are almost as feared as cancer itself...
COPING WITH A TOXIC SOUP...
...dangerous because naive first years that we were, preoccupied with our studies, would forget the contraband in our pockets, only remembering to eat when it had spoiled. If that claim seemed dubious, this new beverage initiative strains credibility still further. Coffee, soda and juice do not often become toxic...
Ever since, waters from the surrounding bedrock and a maze of old mine tunnels and shafts have been rushing in and reacting with the ores to form a toxic soup that rises steadily, year after year, like water in a vast bathtub. It's the Berkeley Pit, and it's a man-made wonder of horrific proportions--an oval lake of acidic mining residues so deep that it could swallow an 80-story skyscraper...
...dollars' worth of zinc, copper, magnesium and other minerals that lie dissolved in the waters. The alternative--a plan to clean the waters with a standard lime-precipitation technique--has its own problems: critics warn that it could leave the community in the shadow of a mountain of toxic sludge as high as the lake is deep...