The earth and the water flowing through it in contact with these hazardous chemicals from 1 foot to 20000 feet down will be poisoned forever.

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Dr Anak Pattanavibool, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Thailand, says that if the intensity of patrolling slackens even briefly, large numbers of tigers could be poisoned very rapidly.

BBC: Deadly poison threat to tigers

Some at the Fed worry this may be a poisoned chalice.

ECONOMIST: Financial regulation

Of course, the exploit that they've actually released is completely harmless, but it demonstrates that the CPU cache can be "poisoned" to let folks read and write into the otherwise protected SMRAM memory.

ENGADGET: New SMM exploit targets Intel CPU caching vulnerability

Just when Shafer, and Napa, were hitting their stride in the 1990s, the vineyards had to be torn up, poisoned and replanted with new louse-resistant rootstock.

WSJ: The Near-Accidental Brilliance of Shafer Vineyards

Meanwhile, in what appears to be a separate incident of possibly poisoned mailings in Washington state, the FBI confirmed the presence of ricin on a letter sent to Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, the agency said.

CNN: FBI finds some ricin on letters to Obama, Bloomberg

Some would-be reformers argue the FDA is being poisoned by the very money that keeps it going.

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London (CNN) -- A British spy found dead at his home in 2010 -- his naked body padlocked inside a large red carrying bag stowed in the bathtub -- was either suffocated or poisoned, but it is unlikely his death will ever be satisfactorily explained, coroner Fiona Wilcox said Wednesday.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Tom thought it would be far better to prevent pollution than clean up a river after it had been poisoned.

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But by the early 1990s the Blackfoot was in such bad shape--its valley scarred by clear cuts, its tributaries poisoned and turned orange with acid mine runoff--that the movie had to be filmed on rivers to the south.

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