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...their flesh contained an unusual amount of caesium 137. After that, the story unfolded with dangerous logic. The caribou's winter food is largely lichens, a primitive plant that has no roots but gets its moisture and nutrients entirely from the air. Its spongy tissues soak up the scant Arctic rain like blotting paper and retain a large part of it. The fallout that is carried down by the rain is retained too. Instead of mixing harmlessly with the soil, it goes into the stomachs of caribou and becomes part of their bones and flesh. When Eskimos...
...accept gifts of antiques. Mrs. Herbert Hoover recovered some pieces of furniture that had been in the White House in Monroe's time, had replicas made of furniture in Monroe's law office in Fredericksburg. But when the Kennedys moved in, the White House contained only a scant sprinkling of important art or authentic antiques. Most of the cabinetry dated from the 20th century. While the walls were cluttered with plenty of portraits, many of them were inferior copies of the originals. There were no landscapes at all, no still lifes, few historical scenes...
Chicken Warriors. Washington's chicken warriors hope that the Common Market will take action before they have to put their retaliatory tariffs into effect. There seems scant chance of this, since Common Market officials have not even scheduled a meeting before the Sept. 15 deadline set by the U.S. The irony is that the outburst of transatlantic recriminations has come just when U.S. and Common Market negotiators had begun to make some progress at working out new and sweeping tariff cuts among 50 nations, scheduled to be made at the next meeting of GATT...
...market. When a broker places an order for a customer, the wholesaler either draws the unlisted stock from his own portfolio (each wholesaler "makes markets" in several issues), or telephones around to others to dicker for a deal. Since there is no clearing house, no ticker tape and scant supervision, ample room exists for imaginative wheeling and dealing...
...never "an appendage, this green-eyed one," admitted Shaw. She dragged him, coldly protesting, on endless travels to far-off places, where he was invariably miserable. When they had been married a dozen years, G.B.S. had a rip-roaring affair-on paper, at least-with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, making scant attempt to hide his infatuation from Charlotte's "sensitive person." (For once, he spared his wife the embarrassment of handling his love letters...