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...enough, even after penetrating brick or concrete walls two feet thick, to kill or gravely injure people well protected from heat and blast. Beyond the half-mile radius, the rays' deadly power will decrease, gradually at first, then sharply; two miles from the explosion they will be virtually harmless...
...months now there has been no attack. Says Nguyen Van Tin: "I think they have learned the lesson that in this village we are organized. If one of Ho's men hides his arms, the French soldiers can't tell whether he is a guerrilla or a harmless peasant. But I know them all -for miles around. The Communists we shoot on sight, Mister Reporter. The others, who are only led by the Communists, we try to capture and re-educate...
When he was a boy in Houston, Miss. (pop. 1,700), Van Buren Philpot Jr. picked up a lot of local lore about snakes. He heard that many harmless snakes are immune to bites from rattlers and moccasins, that the nonpoisonous king snakes often eat venomous snakes. When he entered Tulane Medical School in the fall of 1946, Philpot felt that there was still a lot to be learned about snakebite poisoning, and made up his mind to fill in some of the gaps himself...
Curies & Roentgens. Dr. Thirring calculated that each 100 uranium atoms that fission in a pile produce 61 atoms useful as radioactive poisons; i.e., their half-lives are not less than eight days (which would make them become harmless too quickly) or more than a year (which would make them too mild initially...
Every year the life of the U.S. fish gets more hazardous, and-presumably-U.S. thoughts grow cleaner. In 1949, an estimated 25 million citizens tempted him with hook-studded live frogs, gaily feathered flies, and plump, harmless-looking nightcrawlers. The number of U.S. anglers, says Editor Bruce R. Tuttle in his introduction to The Standard Book of Fishing, is even larger...