Saturday, Jan 18, 2014 - 8:00 AM
Early 20th century American homes are stocked with poisons. From radioactive radium in health tonics to thallium in depilatory creams, from morphine in teething medicine to potassium cyanide in cleaning supplies, the tools to murder by poison multiply with industrial innovation. But the scientific knowledge (and political will) to detect and prevent the crimes lag behind. G
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