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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amounts of radioactivity that people carry in their bodies from natural causes-e.g., from cosmic rays-is "very much larger" than those derived from H-bomb fallout, replied Dr. Willard Libby, top nuclear chemist and lone scientist member of the Atomic Energy Commission, last week. Furthermore, the amount of radiation produced in humans by the fallout is "less than 1% of the maximum permissible concentration" and there is general agreement that it would take "larger concentrations, perhaps tenfold greater," to produce harmful results. Libby provided a striking example: the present dosage of strontium 90 in the bones of children...
...capital of Turkey been much larger, the incident might have passed unnoticed, but before long all of Ankara seemed to be talking about Idil Biret, the amazing four-year-old daughter of a local sugar-refinery official. One day in 1946 little Idil sat down at the piano, and without a note of music before her, dashed off a Bach piece she had just heard over the radio. The story gave newspapers and music lovers an idea: Why couldn't the state send Turkey's child prodigies abroad for proper study...
...attributed the expansion of recruiting activity to increasing competition among large employers rather than to a larger number of job openings for 1957 graduates. Nearly 300 companies conducted 3,563 interviews during the past year...
Leet felt that yesterday's tremor was "a sort of repeat" of "the Ossippee quakes of 1940," which he described as "somewhat larger than this...
Dirty Snowballs. Some astronomers think that comets are swarms of dustlike particles, with a few larger chunks of matter at their centers. Another theory, developed by Astronomer Fred L. Whipple of Harvard, is that they are made mostly of "ices." Out in cold, dark outer space, says Whipple, beyond the last of the planets, wandering molecules of methane, water or ammonia tend to stick together as solids. Gradually snowflakes of a sort form. Attracting one another feebly over millions or billions of years, they gather into sizable bodies of solidified gas peppered with grains of sand or dust. They...