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...will have fantastically elaborate safeguards. The reactor core will be housed in a pressure shell of steel 121 in. thick, weighing 627 tons. It will be fitted with numerous devices to shut it down instantly if anything goes wrong. Above the reactor are reservoirs of water doped with a "poison" that stops a chain reaction by absorbing neutrons. In the unlikely event that the pressure shell ruptures, the water will flood down and douse the reaction...
...state of Israel, I nevertheless cannot understand how any group within or without Judaism could be "shocked" that Buber has devoted great efforts to the improvement of Arab-Israeli relations. This historic and emotional enmity undermines real progress in the Middle East; only if and when this poison is made innocuous can the Arab nations devote their energies to what is really important...
...piece of stalk from a handsome specimen with striped leaves, called Dieffenbachia. Her pain was so severe that the doctors had to give her a morphine-type drug. After a while she was able to take, though painfully, a little aluminum-magnesium hydroxide as an antidote to whatever poison she might have swallowed. Her face and blistered mouth remained painful for more than a week, and she had to be content with a liquid diet and baby foods. What makes this case important, say Drs. George Drach and Walter H. Maloney in the A.M.A. Journal, is that Dieffenbachia...
...Dome scandal. Means was all over the place: he hauled in huge profits selling liquor permits (ostensibly for medicinal and other restricted purposes), and became a topflight influence peddler. He wrote a book about President Harding in which he "revealed" that Mrs. Harding herself had murdered her husband with poison. He was tossed out of the Government, eventually nailed on charges of attempted bribery and violating the Prohibition laws, and locked up for more than three years...
Beating by Scripture. The "fatal poison of irresponsible power" made brutes of most slaveholders, writes Douglass. Even in the border state of Maryland, where Douglass lived, slaves were regularly flogged by masters who were fond of paraphrasing Scripture. "He that knoweth his master's will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." Douglass knew of a white overseer who shot down a slave for refusing to obey. He tells of a 15-year-old girl who was beaten to death for letting a white baby cry. The slaves were helpless, since their testimony was not accepted...