I used to perform environmental inspections for timber companies when I was in college. Most lumber would be pressure treated using materials that are extremely hazardous - arsenic (as the above poster pointed out), toluene, mercury, and various other heavy metals.
The fumes of these chemicals is enough to cause damage, let alone what physical contact can do.
Ugh! I couldn't even get through the first half of this article without giving up! Don't "journalists" usually have an editor to clean up spelling/grammar mistakes in articles? If this went through the editing process, those people ought to be fired. That was one of the most poorly written articles I've read in the past 6 months.
The content _was_ decent, even though the delivery was sub-par.
I can't help but disagree with you more on Farscape, however. As far as straight-up Sci-Fi shows go, there's no outdoing ST:TOS. The stories were great, the acting was pure camp for camp's sake, and there weren't any forced relationships (read love) between the main characters. Kirk and Spock were great together, and Spock and McCoy were the best since Abbott and Costello! I can't stand the way Crichton and Aeryn go goo-goo then cold. And that acting is only surpassed in its horribleness by Hayden and Natalie in the latest travesty that is Star Wars (the "love" scenes, that is - the rest is pretty good).
I thought that ST:TNG was really good, in that they didn't waste time with silly love stories among the main protagonists. The writers focused on story-driven episodes, not reduced to whiny, sappy drivel.
Personally, I like "The Chronicle." There are some real flashes of brilliance, every now and then, and the people are trying to get their jobs done, not get into each other's pants.
Give me a good story any day! If I wanted to watch two main characters drool over each other, I'll tune in to All My Children.
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The fumes of these chemicals is enough to cause damage, let alone what physical contact can do.
Actually, the Supreme Court just ruled that it is unconstitutional to put mentally retarded individuals to death.
Yup, the good old State of Texas is the one that wanted to do in the retard.
The content _was_ decent, even though the delivery was sub-par.
I can't help but disagree with you more on Farscape, however. As far as straight-up Sci-Fi shows go, there's no outdoing ST:TOS. The stories were great, the acting was pure camp for camp's sake, and there weren't any forced relationships (read love) between the main characters. Kirk and Spock were great together, and Spock and McCoy were the best since Abbott and Costello! I can't stand the way Crichton and Aeryn go goo-goo then cold. And that acting is only surpassed in its horribleness by Hayden and Natalie in the latest travesty that is Star Wars (the "love" scenes, that is - the rest is pretty good).
I thought that ST:TNG was really good, in that they didn't waste time with silly love stories among the main protagonists. The writers focused on story-driven episodes, not reduced to whiny, sappy drivel.
Personally, I like "The Chronicle." There are some real flashes of brilliance, every now and then, and the people are trying to get their jobs done, not get into each other's pants.
Give me a good story any day! If I wanted to watch two main characters drool over each other, I'll tune in to All My Children.
But that's why we like standards...there are so many to choose from!
And you think a response of "I spun CowboyNeal for x hours a day" is going to give you valid data???
Anthropologist, huh? Not surprising he put all that detail into D&D. After all, it's one, big social anthropological study...