1. The quest for profit by hook or by crook has poisoned the social atmosphere.
2. The women all quit their jobs after discovering that they had been poisoned by cadmium, an extremely hazardous metal used to make some kinds of batteries.
3. There are too many other things to worry about in life than being poisoned by an overdose of sodium or caffeine.
4. Haikou police on Friday said they had arrested two suspects alleged to have poisoned 12 employees of a competing cake shop on June 28.
5. Calculation of Green GDP will include what costs should be paid for choking smog, poisoned rivers and toxic waste in the course of China's impressive economic growth.
6. Up to 12 children were poisoned at a kindergarten in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province on Friday after eating granular pesticide they thought was candy.
7. Police in Xuzhou ruled out the possibility that the food in the canteen was contaminated and believed somebody must have poisoned the victims'supper.
8. They fear their children have been poisoned by food at the school canteen or by snacks from the school tuck shop.
9. It could also have been poisoned by a noxious gas such as carbon monoxide.
10. Six miners managed to escape after the blast and one poisoned by carbon monoxide was rescued early Sunday.