Word: alphas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans use plutonium 238, an isotope whose main radiation consists of alpha particles that cannot go through paper or clothing and would have to be swallowed or inhaled to be harmful to humans...
...Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity...
...Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), Harvard's only nationally-affiliated fraternity, is now looking for a home in Cambridge following the sale this summer of its former residence, an SAE official said yesterday...
...French aircraft exports, worth $900 million, and earned profits of $35 million. As of the first of the year, it had turned out 1,312 Mirage III and Mirage 5 jet fighters (of which two-thirds were exported). Its export sales of warplanes, including the Mirage F1, the Alpha Jet and the Jaguar (built jointly with the British Aircraft Corp.), are unsurpassed by any other European military-aircraft maker...
...alpha waves and the bombproof cardiovascular systems are not achieved without cost. Tennis players wreck their elbows and break their Achilles' tendons, but runners, especially when they reach middle age, are creaky with bone spurs, shin splints, knee miseries and bruised heels. Despite layers of foam padding in their expensive Adidas, Puma, Nike and Tiger training shoes, half of the members of a suburban joggers' club will be out of action at any given time...