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...face was yellowish. He looked haggard, nervous, irritable. He sounded querulous. An internal disease, which last summer he feared would kill him before he could complete his newest theory, has made him so. That disease-plus the harrying visitors who buzzed and scraped about him the past fortnight, and years of indoor, sedentary work. Dr. Einstein, like so many other scholars, takes no physical exercise...
Ultraviolet radiation has less obvious but even more pernicious effects. By altering proteins in the lens of the eye, it causes a gradual deposit of yellowish pigment. As with the tan, this pigmentation is beneficial up to a point; it helps shield the delicate retina from UV damage. But the dense accumulation of pigment after years of sunning is the main cause of cataracts...
...accused the Soviet Union and its ally Viet Nam of using biochemical weapons against native rebel forces in Afghanistan, Laos and Cambodia in flagrant violation of two major international accords. Since 1975, U.S. officials charge, nearly 10,000 people have died as the result of "yellow rain," a distinctive yellowish mist that is sprayed from planes or that bursts from shells and bombs, and then falls to the ground in sticky drops. It causes an agonizing death through blistering, vomiting and internal bleeding...
Scores of eyewitness accounts by refugees fleeing into Thailand tell the same story. Attacks in remote mountain jungles of Indochina have, according to a State Department estimate, killed at least 7,000 people. Typically, a plane sweeps in low over an isolated village, spraying a yellowish cloud or dropping bombs that burst in a shower of sticky beads. The rain, says the survivor of an April attack, feels "wet like rain and hot like chilies." The lethal ingredient of yellow rain is a poorly understood class of mycotoxins, or fungal poisons, known as trichothecenes, that apparently kill by rupturing blood...
...Soviet violations in his forthcoming book Yellow Rain. Seagrave interviewed victims of chemical attacks in Southeast Asia, Yemen and Afghanistan, as well as the doctors who treated them. In Afghanistan soldiers fighting the Soviet invaders told him about being attacked by rockets fired from helicopters. The rockets released a "yellowish-brown" cloud that caused victims to "die quickly, vomiting blood and fouling their clothes...