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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Brother. In the hullabaloo over fallout, scientists have concentrated on strontium 90, neglected its little brother, strontium 89, though they are similar in emitting damaging beta rays. Main difference: Sr-89 decays faster, losing half its activity in 54 days, v. 20 years for Sr-90. But of the two, Sr-89 may be a greater hazard to the unborn child, warned Dr. Arthur R. Schulert of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory, because an atomic fission bomb produces 160 times as much of it, and 20 times as much as appeared in milk after weapons tests. While...
...some points the researchers purred harmoniously; on others they disagreed violently. Main points of agreement...
...patients) that they "are capricious unless the physician uses them with special understanding." But he insisted that DBI, given along with reduced doses of insulin, has helped some unstable diabetics to lead a more normal life than they could when they took insulin several times a day. Main trouble: there is a narrow margin of safety between the DBI dose needed to control the blood sugar level and the dose that may produce side effects, so treatment in severe cases should begin in a hospital...
...used-plane market. Since September, he has bought 80 big planes (47 DC-6s, 33 Convairs) from jet-converting U.S. airlines. He has sold or leased ten of the eleven Convairs that have already been delivered, has buyers from small airlines or corporations for 40 more planes. His main problem, says Ayer, is not selling the planes, but getting them from the airlines fast enough to please his customers...
...main argument of the editorial--that support should not be given to athletics by the Faculty because it only involves half the school is rather weak. Less than half the school will use the new theatre, as well as the Fogg Museum, or even the Geography Department for which you have so consistently fought...