Word: toxicity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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YOUR ARTICLE ON SHOKO ASAHARA AND the toxic attack on Tokyo's subway system [Cover, April 3] presents another disturbing example of how a society can be held virtual hostage by extremists dedicated to carrying out their agenda through random acts of terror...
...started tripping. It was amazing. I started seeing shooting sparks and I was, like, dude, this was amazing. But it was kind of scary at first because I thought I was gonna die becauseI had heard about those poisonous frogs in Manila that people lick, and it's toxic and stuff, or frogs spit on them or something? I thought "oh man, I would die like this," but then I didn't. Then I kind of kept a look out for these little frogs outside my blue window. A lot of people didn't believe me, and the others were...
...writing called Surfing on the Internet. She yakked with people on Internet Relay Chat, vamped in simulated worlds known as muds, foundered in E-mail and bombarded her brain with Usenet newsgroups carrying names like alt.alien.visitors. Finally, she couldn't take another bit. "It was the classic information overload, toxic-data syndrome," she says, with more and more messages to read and less and less time to read them. The Internet "stopped looking like some kind of theme park and started looking like a Sartrean hell-too many people talking at one time...
Then the police made a yet more dramatic discovery. In a warehouse down a hill from the group's living quarters, they uncovered vast quantities of toxic chemicals, among them many of the constituent ingredients of sarin. Cult members insisted the chemicals were for such legitimate purposes as making pottery and processing semiconductors for a cult-owned business. Says Kenji Mori, a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Tokyo who has visited the compound: "Logically that may be so, but the volume of ingredients makes the place look more like a chemical factory than a religious compound...
...sermon to his chapter in Kochi: "The law in an emergency is to kill one's opponent in a single blow, for instance the way research was conducted on soman [another Nazi gas] and sarin during World War II." He regularly charged that the U.S. was using the toxic chemical against him and his followers...