Word: dose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when President Kennedy ordered resumption of underground testing in Nevada, Ogle was recommended for the Christmas Island job by his longtime boss, Alvin Graves, test director at Los Alamos. (Graves has been one of the leading figures in nuclear testing, once was critically ill from exposure to a radiation dose of 200 roentgens; he recovered, but has been slowed down since a 1955 heart attack.) To get ready for the new tests, Ogle has been averaging about 1,000 miles a day between Washington, Nevada, Hawaii and Christmas Island. He worries not only about scientific matters, but whether his generators...
...well, parents must wait for as long as a year to see whether it will develop normally. By a mechanism not clearly understood, salt poisoning may cause irreversible damage to the brain. The tablespoonful of salt that many Binghamton babies had swallowed, said Dr. Finberg, was as lethal a dose as 4 lbs. of salt to an adult...
...infections. A single virus, even the Asian flu virus, may give one person only a runny-nose sort of 'cold,' and give somebody else a severe case of influenza. It depends on the individual's previous history, present health, age, and the size of the virus dose he is exposed...
Pure mescaline is synthesized today by several chemical companies, which supply it to qualified investigators at prices of about four dollars a dose. Huxley's intriguing essay is a subjective description of the symptoms that followed his taking 400 milligrams of mescaline, the usual amount. What mescaline does to the human mind is difficult to describe; its effects vary strikingly from person to person and from time to time in the same individual. The most significant fact is that a very large proportion of these experiences are pleasant throughout, many of them ecstatically...
...nature of radiation damage, there is no 'safe' dose for either exposure or absorption and hence, history will probably show a similar pattern in the estimation of fallout radiation. Perhaps a better approach by Mr. Gruen would have been to seek opinions on this matter. At any rate, there are more serious aspects to Fallout Protection than evaluation of its 'exhilarating assonance' and ridicule of its suggested large pail in the fallout shelter for 'human waste.' Such things can be practical. Sincerely, John L. Frewing...