Word: poisoning
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...Poisonings:This one has a flicker of hope about it, since poison-control centers around the world field millions of calls per day and resolve most poisonings over the phone. Still, a lot of lives are lost - 45,000 per year, or 123 per day. Medicines both prescription and over-the-counter, household products, pesticides and the paraffin burned in some stoves and lamps are the biggest killers. Not surprisingly, kids under 1 year old - particularly those in low- and middle-income countries - are at the greatest risk. It's no surprise either that the most effective fixes include simply...
...meantime, I developed a debilitating online shopping addiction. But what deepened my drinking despair was the discovery of another problem: although my body violently resisted alcohol’s advances, my mind, speech, and motor skills were all too happy to desert me at the slightest whiff of the poison. My DAPA Nalgene tells me that 78 percent of Harvard students count how many drinks they have, but it’s much harder to keep track when all it takes to go from being flushed and tipsy to flaming and totaled is five-sixths of a beer...
...learned in Vietnam that Ho Chi Minh's "hearts and minds" approach could withstand burning showers of napalm and carpet-bombing from B-52s. The poison of Islamic fundamentalism will survive any aggression we mount against it. Roots don't submit to violence. (Chop up a crabgrass root, and it breeds a dozen new offspring.) You have to patiently dig and dig, and never give up until the job's done. (See pictures of Saudi Arabia's Jihad Rehab Camp...
...fate of their parents and other elders, because no one would have any reason to live. As this was all going on, the pavilion was surrounded with armed guards with guns and crossbows, so people were not going to go anywhere. Many appeared to have been injected with poison...
...that the more than 15,000 factory farms across the nation can avoid oversight by the Clean Water Act as long as they claim they don't discharge animal waste into streams or rivers. Environmentalists say that self-regulation will lead to worsening nitrogen and phosphorus pollution, which can poison drinking water and worsen dead zones in coastal areas...