Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Q. What is your new strip, Outland, about?
Q. You are also writing a humorous column for Boating magazine. What is it about?
A. It's about doing to boaters what I tried to do to everyone else in Bloom County: reveal the lunacy we pretend isn't there. I, of course, would normally have nothing to do with things like boats, but for research reasons I had to buy one. Four, actually...
A March 1948 report by Dr. Herbert M. Parker, director of the Hanford health instruments department of General Electric Co., which ran the facility for the government, said an average of about 7.4 billion particles was being released from the two plants each month.
Parker wrote that "the critical hazard is to the inhalation and lung retention of particles," which he said "can produce radiation damage." At the time, it was estimated that a worker could be inhaling about 16 radioactive particles per month. This suggests that over a one-year period a worker...