Word: aerosols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who do not play by Santana's rules, life is even messier. Bars of prison cells constitute no protection. One foolhardy prisoner who steals drugs from the Mafia has to reckon with Santana's lieutenants. Using an aerosol can to douse the offender with kerosene, they light him on fire, burning him to death...
...noticed his back--the skin was singed and I asked him and the guy said, 'they got me.'" The inmate had been sprayed with kerosene from an aerosol container and set on fire...
When laboratory rats had this reconstructed virus sprayed into their tiny lungs, they not only absorbed the foreign gene but actually sprouted, in their airways, the human protein that scientists believe will cure CF (Since the cells that line the lungs are shed periodically, this aerosol gene therapy will probably have to be repeated every two or three months.) While Crystal has yet to try the therapy in humans, he is supremely optimistic: "We now know it works in the test tube and in animals. I can guarantee that we can correct the defective protein in humans...
...former Soviet Union have tougher problems. Faced with a collapsing economy, rising crime and open fighting among its members, the new Commonwealth of Independent States has pushed environmental issues far down on its list of priorities. The Russian people show no special interest in the ozone problem. Whatever aerosol cans and foam products make it to market in Moscow these days are immediately snapped up by buyers who either do not know about CFCs or do not particularly care...
...their potential demand for CFC products is so great that without the cooperation of both countries, any plan to heal the ozone hole is destined to fail. China's 800 million consumers, encouraged by more than 10 years of economic reform, are ravenous for luxury items such as aerosol cosmetics and air conditioners, and Chinese industry cannot make them fast enough. In the early 1980s China produced 500,000 refrigerators a year; now it churns out some 8 million annually. The Chinese environmental protection agency says it wants the country to switch to non-CFC technologies, but does not have...