Word: toxication
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...when the bark beetles start flying in April from diseased to healthy elms, they are killed by the long-lasting poison. Another help would be substitution of methoxychlor for DDT. Methoxychlor is more expensive, but it kills bark beetles just as well, and it is only 10% as toxic as DDT to birds and other wildlife...
...silent spring crept over London, right into the House of Lords, where they were debating the dangers of pesticides and toxic chemicals. In the U.S., declared Lord Douglas of Barloch, practically every meal contained some DDT. Labor Peer Lord Edward Shackleton, 51, son of famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, couldn't have agreed more. Why, there was a cannibal in Polynesia, said he, "who no longer allows his tribe to eat Americans. Their fat is contaminated. We have about two parts per million of DDT in our bodies, Americans about eleven parts per million." His Lordship's conclusion...
...Everything proceeded according to plan until Central Kitchens began surreptitiously dumping their entire stock of tainted tea at various places around the campus during the March rains. One of those places was the Yard, where the poisoned nuts lay buried. The noxious bacteria in the tea found the toxic substance in the acorns a perfect nutriment. The odoriferous gas you have inquired about is a little-known by-product of their metabolism, encountered only when the bacterial colonies are able to grow without restraint. I'll wager there won't be much green in the Yard for Commencement Exercises this...
...Roman Catholic author (Religion in the Light of Contemporary Science), who built the first device capable of taking multiple X-ray photographs of the human heart beating, and was one of the first to discover radiation's therapeutic value in the treatment of tumors; of radiation poisoning (a toxic dose, which he absorbed in his 20s, continued to poison his body until it finally caused his death); in Frankfurt...
Need TIME [Sept. 28] belittle her efforts on behalf of mankind? The chemical manufacturers have presented the "other side" of the controversy to the public so effectively that highly toxic pesticides are now used as carelessly as foot powder...