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...hours. Of greater concern are the isotopes used in laboratory tests. Among them: carbon 14, with a half-life of 5,750 years. A large hospital may conduct thousands of radioactive tests and procedures daily, including those with carbon 14, and produce enough waste to fill several dozen 30-gal. drums every week. But few hospitals are equipped to store this waste for long...
...simple plot, by all accounts, about "a witch who wanted to be human and the gal he witched who weren't true." But, as the good Lord says, those who know not of what they speak should shut the hell up. Who, after all, are these men, Howard Richardson and William Berney, who pervert morality onto a framework that cannot stand its weight? It's an exhausted tale of witches and lovers and hillbillies, a sinnin' and a rollin' in the hay and a borin' you to tears. And you the congregation knows what will happen and have no reason...
...spoke, that discontent was being aggravated by new government austerity bites: a punishing jump of a full percentage point in employees' social security contributions and increases in the government-controlled prices of items ranging from rail and air tickets to cigarettes and gasoline (to $2.75 per gal.). Charged Georges Séguy, head of the Communist-dominated C.G.T. union: "This is not austerity, it's plunder...
...Sherman Avenue, where Harry's Hong Kong Tailor Shop is tucked alongside the base exchange. Gitmo has a zoo, but it has only a handful of animals: a pony and a burro and a few goats, rabbits, ducks and chickens. Because water is expensive, $7 per 1,000 gal, residents sprinkle their lawns with dirty wash water...
...Rose Kennedy, 89, matriarch of the Kennedy clan; after undergoing surgery to repair an intestinal hernia; in Boston. "The operation went well," her physician reported. "She's a tough old gal. She was swimming just two days...