Word: toxicity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This study is the first study to demonstrate that lead that is accumulated in your bones, and not just what shows up in your blood, may be exerting a toxic effect," said Associate Professor of Occupational Medicine Howard Hu, who led the team of researchers which produced the findings...
Those scenarios are timid next to the real thing: the power one person has over another -- the puppy love, say, that turns rabid as two souls merge in a toxic rapture. For most kids this is just a part of growing up; somehow they learn to cope with the glandular and emotional convulsions that accompany the transformation from child to teenager. Yet the threat of surrender is always there. The teenage girls in the wonderfully unsettling movie Heavenly Creatures create their own fantasy world out of youthful obsession, and then it spins out of their control. The result is murder...
...election is pretty much what it was in 1992: that voters want change in the way business is done in Washington. Clinton has told his top advisers that he will seek Republican votes on welfare reform, a bill designed to overhaul telecommunications regulations, a reauthorization of the Superfund toxic-waste-treatment program, as well as a clean-water measure. The agenda represents a move to the middle, which aides say is deliberate and unavoidable. Said a White House official: "No matter what the results are, it is absolutely essential for us to work with Congress in a bipartisan...
...Exposure to paint thinners and other solvents may cause a temporary loss of smell, memory or color vision as well as problems with maintaining balance. In some cases the toxic effects on the liver and kidneys are permanent, even after the offending solvents have been removed...
Should plasminogen prove to be effective in clinical trials, the non-toxic protein would augment existing cancer treatments. "Most people discover they have tumors before they come into the doctor's office," Bouck said. "My highest hope has been that surgeons could remove the tumor and prevent tumors that are hidden," she said...