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...claims to have found the first physical evidence of chemical weaponry, dating from a battle fought in A.D. 256 at an ancient Roman fortress. James concluded that 20 Roman soldiers unearthed beneath the town's ramparts did not die of war wounds, as previous archaeologists had assumed, but from poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Chemical Warfare Is Ancient History | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

Interior, born Erick Lee Purkhiser, started the Cramps with his wife, guitarist Poison Ivy Rorschach, in 1976. From the beginning, they were more an act than a band, their fusion of surf music, punk and rockabilly (psychobilly, as it was known) sounding better in theory than in sloppy 3-min. bursts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lux Interior | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...were sold in different drug stores around the Chicago area. Their conclusion was that someone was most likely tampering with the drug on the store shelves. The deaths set off a nationwide panic, as stores rushed to remove Tylenol from their shelves and worried consumers overwhelmed hospitals and poison control hotlines. Chicago police went through the streets with loudspeakers, warning residents of the dangers of taking Tylenol. Johnson & Johnson, the drug's manufacturer, spent millions of dollars recalling the pills from stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the Tylenol Poisonings | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...tampering inspired hundreds of copycat incidents across the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration tallied more than 270 different incidents of product tampering in the month following the Tylenol deaths. Pills tainted with everything from rat poison to hydrochloric acid sickened people around the country. Some copycats expanded to food tampering: that Halloween, parents reported finding sharp pins concealed in candy corn and candy bars. Some communities banned trick-or-treating all together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the Tylenol Poisonings | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...Fetuses freak me out. 14. I wrestled a hippopotamus. I used a wrestling move and it went unconscious. 15. I think it's frustrating that ChapStick tastes good when you put it on your lips and lick them, but if you just bite the ChapStick, it tastes like poison. 16. On two separate occasions, I have returned to my dorm room drunk, with some form of cheese in my purse. (See pictures of Denver, Beer Country.) 17. When I was little, I pretended my bike was a horse named Satan. 18. My wife calls me Panda. When a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 More Things I Didn't Want to Know About You | 2/8/2009 | See Source »

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