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...standard miracles of pressagentry, it had been determined that Andrejs was the one-millionth European helped financially or otherwise to emigrate since the U.S. and 28 other nations created the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. In its eight years the agency has assisted 179,000 Europeans to migrate to the United States. Another 290,000 went to Australia, 252,000 were settled in South America. The agency pays transportation, conducts language courses, provides orientation information about the migrants' new country. Total expenses: $270 million (up to 45% supplied...
...cylindrical chamber about 30 inches long in which deuterium is squeezed by a sudden magnetic shock. The squeeze produces an egg-shaped fireball about 0.8 in. long containing five times 1016 (50 million billion) deuterium nuclei at a temperature of 13,000,000°C. It lasts about 0.9 millionth of a second, and spits out about io million neutrons...
...exclude the severely depressed, including potential suicides, and those adjudged in danger of a severe emotional breakdown (psychosis). Then, after four foodless hours, the patients are ensconced on a couch in a comfortable, carpeted room with classical music piped in. After the tasteless shot of as little as a millionth of an ounce of LSD in water, they lie down and are fitted with blinders (a "sleep shield"). To make sure that they shut out external stimuli, some also wear wax and cotton earplugs...
...still far from final agreement on how much radioactive strontium 90 the human system can tolerate without damage, but to be on the safe side, Health Secretary Arthur S. Flemming last week cut the maximum permissible dose to less than half the previously accepted figure-from 80 to 33 millionths of a millionth of a curie per quart of milk, and equivalent readings in food and air. ¶ Insurance against the costs of cancer care was offered in a simplified policy by New York's Standard Security Life Insurance Co., with maximum total benefits...
...angstrom equals one one-hundred-millionth of a centimeter...