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Young children have, proportionately, ten times more strontium 90 in their bones than adults, but so far the average is only about 1/150 of the MFC (Maximum Permissible Concentration) that was recommended by the National Academy of Sciences. The amount will surely grow, say the scientists. Even if no more weapons are tested, there may be enough strontium 90 in "the stratospheric reservoir" to raise the strontium 90 in the bones of children in the Northeastern U.S. to as much as 4.3% of the MPC. If weapons testing continues at the same rate as the last few years, the average...
...people get the same amount. Some children had three times the average, and the variation in adults is seven times. Most of these figures are about city dwellers, and the scientists think that the variation in rural areas will be greater still. It is thus likely that if weapons tests continue, a good many unfortunates may come dangerously close to the Maximum Permissible Concentration-which many scientists believe has been set far too high...
...school board's secretary as cosigner. Instead of official checks with their serial numbers, he used personal blank checks, took the added precaution of making them out to cash. At the end of the month, he counted up the money he had stolen, drew a check for that amount on the school district's tax fund by forging the names of the school board's president, secretary and treasurer, then revolved the check back into the high school fund. He also forged school-board notes to obtain bank loans, once for as much as $60,000. When...
...escorted him home to face arraignment-and the news that the redhead had been seeing a lot of another man while taking his gifts. He admitted that he had embezzled at least $125,000. Officials thought that the final figure might reach as much as $200,000. Whatever the amount, the Collingdale school district last week found itself all but flat broke. It had only about $15,000 left to last the rest of the year. Casey Stengle was very sorry, but he was also glad the whole thing was over. "After all," said he, "this has been going...
...prefacing his plan with the suggestion that Government aid go both to public and private power combines in roughly the same proportion as their share of current U.S. electric output. He wants a big increase in the number of big nuclear power plants, wants utilities to put the same amount of money in each plant as they would in big conventional plants. But until nuclear power becomes competitive with present power, he wants the Federal Government to make cash contributions to pay most of the difference between nuclear-and conventional-power construction costs. Says Gale: "The only way our country...