Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of experiments at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center received funds from the Air Force and the National Institute of Mental Health, in addition to funds from the Human Ecology Fund...
...article went on to explain that the U.S. Air Force base at North Truro--where local hangliders fly into airspace around the base--operated on a peak power output of ten megawatts of microwave radiation. The Air Force itself drew an official danger zone within an 800-ft. radius of the three radomes--units which emit microwave radiation for radar beams...
...newspaper quoted one Air Force captain as saying, "Under the worst combination of circumstances, a man could fry in those things." Another officer added that the radiation could cause cataracts and sterility, and the symptoms may not show for two years. At the time, there were no signs indicating the radiation hazard to civilians...
...hang-gliders do not glide in the air-space around the North Truro base anymore, at least not without the knowledge that they may be fried like a leg of chicken, or poisoned by potentially fatal doses of microwave radiation. But for a few years, the happy-go-lucky vacationers and beach-combers around North Truro swam, flew, and enjoyed their summers unaware of the fact that intense beams of microwave radiation were travelling through their bodies, much the same way more concentrated microwave frequencies are projected through the food inside brand new microwave ovens...much the same way every...
...also calls for some new construction. Work has just been completed on a 400-meter speed-skating oval next to the arena in the center of the village. Two towers, one of them soaring 284 ft. into the air, have been built for the 90-and 70-meter ski jumps. Construction also has started on a complex to house 1,800 athletes. Once the Games are over, the athletes' village will be converted into a minimum-security federal prison that should provide jobs for some 200 local residents. "Every facility here will have a viable afteruse," says MacKenzie...