Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Champlin, and Israeli Specialist Yair Reisner, worked with Soviet doctors under what he called "battlefield" conditions. In all, 299 people, most of them fire fighters and plantworkers, were hospitalized after exposure to estimated levels of radiation that ranged from 100 rads to more than 800 rads. In normal circumstances a person is exposed to about one-tenth of a rad per year. "Those in the lower-dose range will have modest and reversible damage," Gale says. Many of the 299 fell into this category. But 35 patients were exposed to doses exceeding 800 rads and were listed in "grave...
...AIDS virus, which has been found to reproduce thousands of times faster than normal viruses, indicating its deadly nature, has a strange, built-in delay mechanism...
...ideal drug stops some virus enzyme from working but doesn't interfere with normal cells," Haseltine says. So, the more doctors know about how the virus works, the more opportunities they have to stop it from functioning properly...
Many lenders are finding it difficult to manage the sudden growth of their business. At San Diego's Home Federal Savings & Loan, mortgage applications are running at nearly five times the normal volume. Boston-based Commonwealth Mortgage is processing $40 million a week in mortgages, more than four times last year's level. Many banks that usually process a loan application in three weeks now require up to two months. Another problem: a shortage of real estate appraisers, who are needed to approve loans...
...Sometimes I feel like just leaving, looking for a normal life," the general manager confessed. "You'll be driving along at 5 a.m. and the window on your truck won't shut all the way and you're freezing to death and you see lights from houses come on and you know there's coffee and a regular breakfast in there somewhere. But I'm hooked, I guess...