Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After looking at your Aug. 4 pictures of the Baghdad victims, I have decided to resign from the human race...
...second time I have found it necessary to tear a page out of TIME before taking it home. I wonder why any editor who is a human being could think of printing the "Victims of Baghdad" pictures...
Poorer Progeny. Much less uncertain are genetic effects. Said the report: "Exposure of gonads to even the smallest doses of ionizing radiations can give rise to mutant genes which accumulate, are transmissible to the progeny, and are considered to be, in general, harmful to the human race." Doubling the present human mutation rate would probably not lead to the race's extinction. But the scientists felt little doubt that any increase at all will lower the average of human intelligence and life expectancy...
...Atomic Energy Commission's famed Oak Ridge National Laboratory: several compounds built around S, 2-aminoethylisothiuronium (or AET) have been given to rats and mice, monkeys and dogs. Then the animals have been exposed to radiation. Figuring that 400 r. (see SCIENCE) will kill half the animals or human beings exposed to it, Researchers Doherty and Raymond Shapira doubled the dose. Whereas all untreated animals died, nearly all those given a suitable dose of AET survived...
...other puzzles. Cosmic radiation measured close to earth is fairly weak near the geomagnetic equator (where magnetic deflection is greatest), and strongest near the magnetic poles. At 1,200 miles above South America, the radiation hit Explorer IV at a heavy ten roentgens an hour-enough to give the human space traveler his top weekly X-ray dosage in about two minutes. And one Geiger counter inside the satellite, though coated with lead 1/16 in. thick, recorded 60% as many impacts as its unshielded mate, which in turn reported radiation almost as intense as that reported by two scintillation counters...