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...estimated 40 crops will have to be raised and discarded before the radiation in the soil can be brought within "acceptable limits." But before the 41st harvest, most people will die of starvation or radiation poisoning. The alternative, according to the federal government, is to scrape off the topsoil, with large earth moving equipment--such as motorizer scrapers and motor graders." Naturally this presupposes a plentiful supply of motor vehicles, gasoline, trained vehicle operators, food to sustain the workers, farmers to plan the new crops, crops to plant, and sufficient farming equipment. Willard F. Libby presupposes another set of circumstances...
...Could Always Tell A Yale Man, once upon a time. You might not Approve, to be sure, but you certainly could always Tell. Frisky. Groomed. Bumptious. Friendly. Sleek. The flinty granite of the East, the knotted pine of the far-flung Reaches, and the lumpish topsoil of the Midwest all gentled and traveled by four years of mellow College life. Yes, that was the Yalie all right. As far from a top hat as a Hottentot, but withal, a man to remember, to conjure up, to savor-to be reckoned with...
Oxford Archaeologist M. J. Aitken explained to the conference why almost any disturbance of the soil shows up on the magnetometer. Topsoil is generally more magnetic than soil below it, so when a ditch or cellar gradually fills with material washed from the surface, it distorts the earth's magnetic field enough to be detected by the magnetometer despite several yards of debris...
...church, no mosque. But it does have three hotels (650 rooms in air-conditioned cottages), two movie theaters, two swimming pools, an airport big enough to handle Caravelle jets, and 124 private firms, including an automatic laundry and a lemonade factory. Between the buildings green lawns grow in topsoil trucked in from Algiers. In its three staff dining rooms white-jacketed waiters serve meals worthy of a three-star Paris restaurant, from pate to four kinds of cheese...
...Perkins' day, medical charlatanism has made great strides, notes Dr. William H. Gordon in the medical magazine GP. Frequently the quackery is keyed to news of medical progress. Use of radioactive isotopes in medicine, for example, inspired some Comanche County, Texas entrepreneurs to sell packages of their local topsoil, which contained faint traces of uranium. Patients were supposed to sit with their feet in the topsoil for relief of rheumatism and other ailments...