Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played moderatly well," Co-Captain Ray LaRaja said. "It's a disappointment to lose, but the main concern is developing team skills...
Hagelstein, now 32, went on dreaming about devising an X-ray laser to be used in peaceful applications. Last week that dream prevailed. Livermore announced that Hagelstein was returning to M.I.T. as an associate professor. The young whiz offered no comment. But as Livermore Physicist George Chapline put it, Hagelstein's departure represents a "very significant loss...
...slaughtered pork were added to the list in the 1980s. Last April the agency gave the go-ahead for irradiating fruits and vegetables, and a furor erupted. Despite the FDA's consent, the process until now has been used mainly to preserve herbs and spices. But last week gamma ray-treated fruit made its first U.S. appearance when Laurenzo's Farmer's Market in North Miami Beach began offering irradiated Puerto Rican mangoes. The FDA is now considering whether to extend approval to fish and poultry. Nineteen other countries have also endorsed irradiation for a wide array of foodstuffs...
Supporters claim that gamma-ray exposure offers an alternative to controversial pesticides, fumigants and preservatives, and protects human health by killing parasites like trichina worms in pork and bacteria like salmonella, which causes food poisoning. Irradiation, they note, can extend shelf life. "We see the day when you can go into a supermarket and buy a barbecued chicken that has been cooked, vacuum-packed and irradiated. It can sit on the shelf for eight years, and all you'll have to do is heat it up," predicts Physicist Martin Welt, founder of Radiation Technology...
...Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, who is serving a four-year sentence in Lyons for illegally possessing weapons and false identity papers. Abdallah's fingerprints were also discovered in an apartment found to contain the Czech-made pistol used in the 1982 Paris killings of U.S. Military Attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli Diplomat Yacov Barsimantov. French authorities, however, say they still lack sufficient evidence to try him in connection with those cases. Persistent rumors that the French might be considering his release have led the U.S to voice its opposition to such a move...