Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free that it can only come through working together. It seems that there is no other way for me to get your attention." With that, Cabell, the black assistant principal of a racially troubled high school just outside Flint, Mich., put a shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger...
...viral hepatitis, which had completely shut down their liver function. Death was only hours away when Abouna resorted to the use of baboons. The animals were given fatal doses of anesthesia. Their excised livers were then washed in order to remove, as much as possible, the proteins that might trigger a reaction in the patient. Finally, the patients' circulatory systems were hooked up to the blood vessels of the isolated livers, which rested at bedside in stainless steel chambers. While the patients' blood circulated through the baboon livers, their own livers had a chance to rest and recover...
...most notably the Asian walking catfish in Florida and the European carp in all states -have adapted so successfully to U.S. waters that they have crowded out valuable indigenous species. Other scientists fear that the amur could conceivably eat a lake's entire supply of vegetation and thus trigger a serious new kind of ecological imbalance. But, says Collins, "if we thought the amur was a monster, we wouldn't stock...
...more pollutants and often has unwanted social side effects, like creating huge and unmanageable unemployment. What if pollution was abated, the birthrate halved and food production doubled? The readouts are no less glum. There would still be some pollution from every farm and factory, and cumulatively it would still trigger catastrophe. After running thousands of such hypotheses through the computer, Meadows sums up his conclusion tersely: "All growth projections end in collapse...
...risk is obvious: smoke-filled air contains visible smoke particles and invisible gases that may irritate the eyes and nasal passages. These same substances may also trigger allergic reactions. The least obvious and most insidious danger is that a colorless gas, carbon monoxide, may get into the nonsmoker's bloodstream in sufficient quantity to damage his heart and lungs or exacerbate heart-lung disease that he already...