Word: poison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most biologically potent chemicals so far extracted from marine life are the poisons that primitive creatures use for self-protection. That does not discourage the seagoing biologists. After all, they point out, the vegetable poison curare has proved invaluable as a muscle relaxant that is used with general anesthesia for surgery. The Japanese are already using molecular modifications of marine venoms as medicines...
Every morning at 8, the patrol sallies forth in an old black hearse to kill rats with fluoroacetamide poison, calcium cyanide and .22 pistols. "It's an impossible job," says Westbrook. "The gestation period for rats is 21 days. A healthy female has a litter of twelve every four weeks. We have to kill constantly just to keep pace." The real solution lies in cleaning up the city and training residents to make their homes unfit for vermin. Westbrook is not optimistic. "Even if we had strict sanitation laws, it's doubtful that people would obey them...
Thoughtful gardeners should choose the least toxic control available; if it is a poison, they should buy the smallest quantity necessary. Above all, says Cry California, swear off DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons. The ecosystem you save will be your...
...eras, discovers that she shares certain affinities with Linda. From that point, it is not long before Martha is voluntarily undergoing harrowing experiments in order to determine the limits of her consciousness. As the novel closes, she is stranded off the Scottish coast, England having been decimated by poison gas and radioactivity. She has also become a member of a telepathic community whose members speak to each other across great distance through the power of their own shared thoughts. In doing so, Martha attains a perspective that permits her to see, in the midst of the chaos, a terrible beauty...
...reporter and playwright, Miss Armstrong turned mistress of the macabre with the 1942 publication of Lay On, Mac Duff; she went on to write more than a score of chillers, and in 1957 won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for A Dram of Poison. "Maybe we are all potential murderers," she once said, "and reading stories about that crime releases us in some...